1. We would redeem you if death accepted ransom
With every precious soul or precious treasure

2. Death refused but to smite you with its arrow
And not to see the glory of generosity shattered

3. So it marched, desiring none but you, and whenever
It knew it wanted a great one, it grew resolute

4. Fate took you suddenly in an instant
A traitor's hands felled the pillar

5. It took you and had no mercy on the bereft children
It left them weeping, two by two, one by one

6. You are gone but caused anguish in our hearts
An anguish that nearly ignited, if not for tears' flow

7. We wept for you until the mountain almost wept for us
And until, from our weeping, even enemies wept

8. Scarcely had tears wet our eyes before they flowed
Tomorrow when - would we had never seen tomorrow!

9. A young girl pure as angels perished
And death joined her to those gone before

10. She pined, seeking to meet you, as if
You had set, before parting, a time you'd see each other

11. As if she had a vow she wanted to fulfill
As if you were the voice, the echo answered back

12. She walked a path you too had walked
To meet you, whom you had prepared to excel

13. A lad of fine character and fine qualities
Of a heart as sweet as his face that smiled

14. A lad who was like a branch in its prime
By God! How that branch was brought down!

15. He grew used to seeing you each morn
Ugly then was the leaving you had made habitual

16. We were bereaved of him, like the full moon
Never before had we seen the earth filled with moonlight

17. No eye remained whose tears did not flow blood
No heart in the throng did not blaze up

18. Disasters that, had they turned to towering mountains,
Those peaks would have bowed down prostrate before them

19. Had they struck inanimate matter, it would have turned liquid
Had they struck liquid, it would have turned solid

20. Understand, my friend, that patience best suits a hero
Especially one, like you, who is master

21. Be an example for those who are patient -
It is by your like, in repelling afflictions, examples are set

22. By your life! Sorrow avails not its lord
So it befits the sorrowful to show forbearance

23. Man was not created but to be lost one day
And was not lost but to be found one day

24. No soul escapes death,
Even were it above the highest Heaven ascended

25. So let not the weeping grieve, nor enemies gloat
For every person, friend, ends in dust