1. A resolve in which victory and triumph were stripped bare,
And an idea that extinguished thoughts beneath it.

2. You mounted the sea for God's sake when it raged,
Vexing it, though the wind's whip was confined.

3. A gaze that alights, on which sways the saddle of its horseman,
And is not of that which prudence and excuse restrain.

4. As if its rider in its undulating midst
Were wrathful, with sparks flashing from his breath.

5. You carried yourself atop it, above a crafty one
Cunning, with no refuge or burden from it.

6. It would be excused if it were a battlefield
On which confusion in the air spread far.

7. Where valor and daring were disturbed,
And where you possess what you initiate and neglect.

8. Perhaps you left the fish of the water from turquoise,
Whose swimming your bright-colored gaze grew accustomed to.

9. Or you said in the waves, "An unfazed army
Battling the troops," or "Polished with blades."

10. Such is courage, except it was excess
Negating caution-and caution is preferred.

11. Do not risk religion and life upon danger,
For reckless abandon is not praised in your likes.

12. If your garb is exclusive to its wearer,
Then people have clung to its hem.

13. Why not show mercy to souls whose passionate zeal
Was for you, and longing and remembrance took hold of them?

14. And restore to the most cowardly of them the bravery they had,
Stingily toward you, and enliven the wakefulness of their night?

15. We are in Homs, settling in its dwellings,
And for the hearts with that attachment, perishing.

16. We do not think well out of pity, and you secured
For us your efforts, so fate will support you.

17. As if when you traveled, the river traveled in
That figurative manner, so sailed your ships the river.

18. As if you stood to fight it with benefit,
So it was seized by shock or bit by frustration.

19. Your generosity encompassed the world, so there is nothing left for it
Except the ocean as an analogy when considered.

20. And you did not consider that a portion
Could carry the whole, nor brief summarize the complete.

21. No coasts of its bank dissuaded a hand from you
Except that its other coasts extended a hand.

22. The glance continues the desolation of longing from here and there,
With nothing but rubble and stone for aid.

23. You became, above God's defense as you bolster it
With spiritual ease and piety, victorious.

24. As if you were an eye it regarded,
And every shore with earthly figures an eyelid.