1. I care not if I die pursuing glory’s dreams
Of honor, dignity, and high ideals

2. Scattering my forebears and ambitions o’er the bay
Above the plains, above the mountain peaks

3. Your sweet-scented sowing stirs the flowers
And awakens the thickets from their slumber

4. I care not if I was the first thing
That crossed the Maker’s mind

5. That roamed a virgin world under endless skies
And was the generations’ qiblah from afore

6. A world where brilliant civilizations arose
And guidance bathed the face of misguidance

7. An age where primal man’s more savage than the wolf
And roams the arena of assassinations

8. He shuns daylight in the beast’s lair
And goes hunting underneath the nights

9. If then your eyes are clouded by a tear
And hope’s brilliant stars are veiled

10. If then in people’s hearts there is longing
And seeking after distant, lofty goals

11. If then mercy wanders o’er the land
And love trails its gown

12. I care not if you were sin’s cradle
And a blight steeped in its curses’ mire

13. God has turned his fair gaze away from you
Leaving you to the vulgar and the vile

14. So misery’s hosts called out to you
From every settlement in droves

15. You were stripped bare of beauty and the semblance
Of beauty and dreams of comeliness

16. The soul recoils from your disgrace and eyes
When they meet you in the gutters

17. I care not, for you are my country still
No matter how strange in my imagination

18. I meet you-fallen from prosperity
Lofty glory, brilliant shadows

19. And I see honor in living and dying
To ransom you on battle’s field