1. My heart is merciful though patience has healed me,
For without patience, your world would not know freedom.

2. I find you only sacrifice the brave,
While could a secret remain hidden from the resolute?

3. Join me, for the loyal have nothing to fear,
And the selfless will withstand adversity.

4. My aspirations to glory torment me,
Though the world grows dark, my cause is still clear.

5. If it had any sense, it would take the reins,
But this broken thing, it has no guiding star.

6. Let me roam the wasteland until it lays waste,
My resolve is hardened, though my years run short.

7. Upon a steed, white as camphor, smooth as silk,
With a white blaze, glorying like the full moon's light upon his rosy face.

8. I and the ruins are one in our sighs,
As passion and hearts fall to time and the wilderness.

9. I wander these lands, resigned,
Though unease stirs when the cliff face looms.

10. As if the ruins, the wells and the tents
Concealed a grudge to spread their schemes.

11. As if the night were a silent garden,
Its branches, stars, its blooms, the moon.

12. As if the horizon were a field for warriors
Grasping their spears within its expanse.

13. As if the crescent, made of ivory,
Takes aim with its arrows throughout the ages.

14. As if the glow of Mars and fair Venus
Covered their beauty, captivating all who looked upon them.

15. As if the Pleiades were parted in their arrangements,
Having wandered off confused on some destined journey.

16. As if Sirius led his army's vanguard,
Bent on killing, captive-taking and plunder.

17. As if Aldebaran marched bravely forth
While the cowardly fled in their terror.

18. As if Vega's intellect poured down to Earth
Having abandoned the night through separation's sorrow.

19. As if the twins' eyes saw only hardship
In place of the ease their sight should bring.

20. As if the Milky Way were a stream
To ford, with the Pleiades lighting the way across.

21. As if Altair spread his wings
Seeking to build a bridge to aid his fallen state.

22. As if Gemini were silver cups
Adorned at dawn by rays of gold.

23. As if the dawn's first light amongst the fading dark
Conjured meanings for minds to behold.

24. As if Alioth's generous hand
Cast out penury, pouring forth white blessings.

25. As if my hopes were suspended in the balance
While the barren earth awaited the rains.

26. I look to glory openly now without a veil,
With nothing but jewels to obscure the sight.

27. I marched against the foe while fortune served me,
With the world at my command and victory before me.

28. In battle the champions frowned to see me approach
While I advanced smiling, untroubled, serene.

29. Success and safety were my companions,
While the enemy knew only fear and loss.

30. They fled from the flash of my blade,
For if it frowned, they fled, if it smiled, they ran.

31. Can any enemy now conceal your might
When to hide it would be a sin?

32. They scheme to disguise their weakness,
Yet the ways of the desert brook no deception.

33. May God curse those who betray your trust,
Who fail to praise you and give thanks,

34. Whose words of honor mask their villainy,
Ever betraying those who called them friend.

35. Yours are the blessings, I foresee your rank
Rising to the summit where glory awaits.

36. Those who seek your noble aims are assured,
No darkness can conceal the coming dawn.

37. O son of heroes, your deeds give life to praise
And memories that endure through all time.

38. In your glory we live, in your charity we thrive,
In your mystery we die and in your dust our graves lie.

39. The more your sweet words are repeated,
The more they adorn both worlds and stir the passions.

40. Be content this year and leave others to come,
Live forever and keep your joy green.

41. Let my words adorn you now with necklaces
Of verse whose symmetry rivals the pearls.

42. They could charm any who heard them recited,
Maddening as wine, bewitching as Babylon’s sorcery,

43. Confounding the elitist critic,
Amazing the uncultured with their exotic beauty.

44. You remain my secure fortune, no man
Was ever disappointed who placed his hopes in you.

45. I am the son of your endless generosity,
Beyond counting or measuring.

46. I cannot be satisfied with any other's dominion,
Does gilt compare to gold in worth?

47. Before you I battled the world once I understood it
And drove it away, so it called me uncouth.

48. They see my actions as sinful,
Like Moses, who doubted when Khidr destroyed the boat.