The Dey has been informed of everything,
At the approach he has laid the foundations of a fort well-gunned,
The King of Denmark has come with his warships [July, 1770].
He is a saint, our Dey!
The King of Spain has come to attack us [1775],
He has marshalled 550 legions on foot,
Our warriors have sharpened their swords, gone forward.
He is a saint, our Dey!
The infidels have debarked their troops,
The Muslim warriors rush forward, firing their muskets,
[The infidels] flee, leaving their cannons, their mortars.
He is a saint, our Dey!
The third time the infidels come under a ruse [Spain, 1783];
They have cut down trees and built gunships [like ours].
They are beaten, as by Khair ed-Din Pasha [Barbarossa in 1519].
I swear he is a saint, our Dey!
The fourth time the infidels came full of fury [Spain, 1784],
Our Dey heeded the pleas of Muslim countries,
The fleet of the infidels has been destroyed.
By God, he is a saint, our Dey!
Seferli-Oglu extolled the Dey greatly,
Commanders, commoners, all have been wounded,
He is another Khair ed-Din Pasha.
By God, he is a saint, our Dey!