1. If the patience of the resolute is excellence
You are the most excellent, the most noble, the most sublime

2. You, above being consoled for the sorrows
Above the one who consoles you with reason

3. With your words one finds guidance, so when
You are honored, he who I spoke to before says

4. You have tasted bitter and sweet tribulations
And tread days of sorrow and ease

5. And killed time with knowledge, so no saying grows old
Nor any deed made new again

6. I find sorrow in you is protection and reason
And I see it in people as panic and ignorance

7. You have a kinship drawn to you and when
Noble origin existed, kinship had origin

8. And loyalty grew in it but
Your people have always been the people of loyalty

9. Indeed the best of tears as an aid are tears
Roused by compassion, so begin

10. Where is your gentleness, which you have in war, when
Iron is deemed vile and blades are bared

11. Where did you leave it the morning you met
The Romans while destinies by swords are decided

12. Fate divided you into two persons unjustly
The division made itself in you justice

13. So when you are allotted what they seized with what they
Wronged, it distracts the heart and comforts

14. And you become certain your share is more faithful
And you realize your endeavor is higher

15. By my life, you have occupied the fates
With the enemies, so how can they seek another occupation

16. And how you have risen against the darkness with swords
A captive, and with attainment, aspiring

17. They counted it as aid against it, but when
The conflict receded, he saw it culminate in ruin

18. Its suspicions lied to it while you test
It and remain in blessing that knows no decline

19. The enemies wanted you just as they wanted
But they did not wound a shadow of your being

20. And you have thrown the happiness against some
Of the enemies' selves, and you hit the mark fully

21. Their spears collided with your spear but
Left the spearmen while your spear remained towering

22. If what you have received from the unrest were
A stab, you would have directed the horses to it early

23. And you would have dispelled this yearning with a blow
That has often dispelled distress and separated

24. A speech for the doves that has no reply
Even if she who is named is bereaved

25. And if you do not find peers among the people
A being of decay wanted death as a husband

26. The sweetness of life is the breath in the soul
And more desirable than being bored and more sweet

27. And if an old man says "enough", he hasn't
Grown bored of life, but weakness has tired him

28. The instrument of life is health and youth
So when they turn away from a person, he turns away

29. You never regain what life grants
Oh, would that its bestowal were stingy

30. It would suffice to be a joy that begets sorrow
And an intimacy that leaves ardor arid

31. It is a beloved who does not keep a vow to betray
Nor complete a bond

32. Let every teardrop that flows from it flow away
And by freeing both hands from it, release

33. The trait of the singing girls is in it, so I do not
Know whether the people gave it the feminine name or not

34. O king of the land who distinguishes between lives
And deaths among them, and honor and disgrace

35. God gave governance whose sword
You are, a sword adorned with acts of grace

36. With it the loyal were enriched with generosity
And with it the enemies were destroyed with killing

37. When roused for calling it was an ocean
And when roused for battle it was a sharpened blade

38. When the earth darkened it was a sun
And when the earth became barren it was a cloudburst

39. It is the one who strikes the battalion while
Raiding grows severe and the blow most severe

40. O dazzler of minds, what can grasp
Your description? You have wearied my mind, so wait

41. Whoever emulates you tires himself out
And whoever follows your path goes astray

42. So if one desires your eternity, a supplicant,
He says you will not decline or see one like you