1. After you, who knows patience in grief?
With your loss, despair fell upon the heart

2. Fate struck you with the arrows of misfortune
And when your time was up, the dearest wept

3. Fate struck you while you were the core of every
Noble heart, so hearts cry out for you

4. Time could not avenge itself upon you
Nor find in your nature what would disgrace you

5. Rather, you had a pleasing, gracious nature
Unlike any other - none could match you

6. You comprehended mysteries and hid truths
While suspect thoughts could not encompass you

7. As though you slew time itself to find
Its hidden secrets - all was clear to you

8. You described the full moon in your life
Yet your own brilliance no ages can shape

9. A wonder that you lived on in our dreams
While we retreat into dreams for comfort

10. Our souls are but prisoners
Our bodies are but jails

11. Nothing in the universe lasts
Like the ruins of homes, so are all creatures

12. The causes of death have overtaken you
Steadfast, faithful till the final moment

13. Does the bier know which hero it carries?
Which grave will treasure what hero within?

14. A hero in whom all beauty was gathered
And every grace and art was perfected

15. Some of his qualities those of a lion, a full moon
Some of his traits those of a sharp blade and softness

16. The bloom of youth showed upon him
While the gravity of age robed him

17. Let not the enemies gloat over us
For every hero is hostage to his fate

18. O light of the eyes, you have left us
And no more will eyes fill up with your light

19. Swift death took you before farewells
You built but your companion did not bid you farewell

20. Not that you neglected to bid goodbye
But that pitiless fate refused your wish

21. Oh how your mother will wail loudly
When the news of your loss drums in her ears

22.
And your brother afar will suffer agony

23. When the news of certainty reaches him
The stars will weep for you in the darkness

24. As the blossoms weep for you in the meadow
Brothers whom you have left will weep

25. A mother who eats, a grieving father
For you our breast will never stop aching

26. For you our sorrows can never dry
The young men boasted of you as a child

27. As the brow boasts of the crown upon it
You have taken away all the beauty of life

28. After you, nothing in life is beautiful
You were for us the hope, the hope

29. You were for us the helper - now no helper
After you, brother, how can I seek solace

30. When my left hand and right are paralyzed?
Sorrow is bearable except for the likes of me

31. For the likes of you, it remains unbearable
You tear up my soul in remorse

32. In you my burning tears obey me
My being is filled with melting sorrow

33. My eyelids brim with scalding tears
Grief has not been healed in my heart

34. Yet I pretend it is a shallow flesh wound
Tears block eyes from eyes against their will

35. While the eyelids refuse to part
So long my insomnia, so long my night

36. I know not when sleep will come
As though dawn has donned mourning

37. For you - in it nothing can be seen
May God reward you well for us