1. The one you love, adore and hold dear
The one whose love is for all time sincere

2. The one who repays your affection tenfold
Whose nature is gentle, kind and bold

3. If love brought you no glory or fame
Then every friendship is but a claim

4. It’s grace enough you give loyalty
While owing nothing to those loyal to thee

5. I've tested people, step by step
Naught but self is a man's true help

6. I examined events, saw each one hard
Yet with men’s resolve, all is charmed

7. I storm the heights if I assail
But leave them be if my strength should fail

8. I confront misfortunes with strong heart
So I survive and misfortunes depart

9. I scorn the boaster of empty fame
Though it seems the summit is his acclaim

10. I know fate forever alternating
Seriousness rising, sinking, waiting

11. I know the soul is all of a man
If it remains, though his all is gone

12. I know the nature of this life so fleeting
Let it be, following its own beating

13. If worldly shade comes not to thee
Seek a world elsewhere sheltering thee

14. For hopes and dreams oft lead astray
While people's fate is but a day

15. Has glorious East a memory left
Or are events now from its scroll cleft

16. Have its people any pillar of yours
So weak and ruined what once was yours

17. Prepare for him gifts, he is of those
Who raise their nations when low they go

18. But I have not seen, with nights around
Should they increase, that men abound

19. Nor knowledge gathering every group
For no folk in ignorance can regroup

20. Nor glory easily got and near
To a people with resolve and skill clear