1. Alas, after you, patience is futile
And if it helps, which heart can have patience?

2. Tears are denounced in men
Except for you, withholding them brings no thanks

3. If I had a heart I would have told it, comfort me
For I have no heart, and so I suffer

4. I kept to your grave, and crying kept to me
The night was dark, and the stars remained awake

5. I cry for you with copious tears
And the red ochre would tell you little

6. I wished from my longing for you and my sorrow
If only your tomb was carved into my heart

7. I wonder how the earth can contain you
Where did the clear dust settle?

8. I spent the night veiled by it, but
The traces of your generosity cannot be concealed

9. The dew fell ill when you fell ill, and nearly
Died of the crushing, dire despair

10. It hoped you would heal its fracture
For if you go, its break cannot be healed

11. And clouds gathered over those faces
Murky, unclarified, yielding no rain

12. How they tried to suppress the grief, but it
Would penetrate the bodies to appear

13. The crowds gathered around you as though
Seeking the east's protection from what is feared

14. And all asked how our leader fared
What did our wise men see, what did they tell?

15. The illness strengthens, then weakens at times
As though testing hearts and probing

16. Fate made you drink the sweet and gave you bitterness
May its hands perish, its sin is unforgiven

17. Alas, no army deters fate
From whom it is determined, no troops avail

18. Fate ambushed our souls until we
Nearly consoled the man before he was shrouded

19. We loathe life as though it were a blessing
And beyond the calamities, loving it bears no fruit

20. We think the days' laughter is pleasing
While days mock people and ridicule

21. If the Nile valley only knew the disaster
Its waters would nearly dry up

22. They placed you in the earth's belly though you were unaccustomed
To seas concealing you in its valleys

23. They saw your majesty in the tomb, and all
Fell desiring that in your place they be buried

24. No courtyard was ever devoid of sorrow for you
So that no chamber would lack tears

25. They came to offer condolences but no consolation came to them
Grief was woven and tears were strewn

26. And all asked how their country would be
After the leader died, reflecting

27. This loss did not afflict us in his time
Had he felt the calamity, he would have sensed it