1. Your bereaver knew not who it was that brought me the mournful news,
Nor who heard your mourners what it was they'd come to recite.

2. Spring itself seemed to mourn as it bade the year farewell,
And return in mourning once the year had ended its span.

3. Before gathered nobles the Vizier was mourned publicly, though none
Wept but two who gazed on, their eyes filled with tears.

4. No longer didExpectation's eyes gleam with hope,
Nor did High Ambition's heart beat with life.

5. Allah gave me an eye that at his deathbed witnessed
How the clouds of munificence were torn and dispersed.

6. How the lightning flashed and flickered through the darkness
How the strokes succeeded, his blood flowing free.

7. My heart expires whene’er I remember him -
Would that, when his body fell, my soul had shattered!

8. Never had I feared what disasters time might unfurl
Were it not for this, the most dreadful of all.

9. A lifeline of hope for mankind had been severed
By the hands of the wicked, and cut short its thread.

10. A crown coveted by jealous foes for removal
Had sat high above them, grand and sublime.

11. Yet Hatred soiled it, its wearer looking on
At what came between them, unable to stop it.

12. Do they not know that when a monarch's crown is seized,
He who wore it will suddenly be humbled?

13. I swear no kingdom will ever again know gladness
Once the crown has been wrested from one such as he.

14. A herd that abandoned him will scatter in fragments
A realm united in concord under his reign.

15. Two were made one under his rule, but today
Behold them both lost and wandering separate ways.