1. He left as if he never existed
Oh, if only he was never born!

2. Orphanhood is not the loss of a father
Orphanhood is the loss of a son!

3. Troubles are not easy to bear
And patience does not bring happiness

4. Oh partridge chick, why didn't you
Live the lifetime of a partridge?

5. Spring festival has arrived
Why didn't you celebrate?

6. Why didn't you smile with
A string of pearls across your cheek?

7. What did his breeze do
To your rosy cheek?

8. Oh little bird, sing
Among the gardens

9. Sing, fill the house with joy
Between play and affection

10. The house without your sighs
Is like a monastery or mosque

11. Insist on keeping silent to your father
The silence of eternity!

12. How hard is patience
For the loss of a hopeful lad!

13. An archer hit a spring
But did not want to drink

14. Rather, the children of this day
Are tomorrow's heroes

15. Woe to the boys, woe in
Death or birth!

16. They made my heart accustomed to sorrow
Before them I never knew

17. Their illness and death
Are daggers in my liver!

18. The hand of fate snatches them
While we stand helpless

19. If only their taker
Could be happy with endurance!

20. If only we had hearts
Carved of ice!

21. As a childless man lives
The life of solitude

22. And a father's worry for them
Turns his hair gray prematurely!