1. I make excuses for my boon companions and accept their drink
While my enemies attack me like angry wasps

2. Were it not for pride in a young man and bitterness
I would ignore things that cause annoyance

3. I have no weakness to accept what displeases me
Nor injustice in my nature to be angry at what gives pleasure

4. I have patience that does not miss an opportunity
It has a method that keeps to a steady pace

5. My ability at archery allows me to hit the target
And yet I restrain myself, though able to shoot straight

6. I hold back my hand out of forbearance and nobility
Though my reach is wide whether stretched out or pulled in

7. In battle I am a lion, aided and victorious
Masterful in seizing triumph and tearing apart the prey

8. When I brandish my spear on an ominous day
Against a horde, they are the first to scatter in defeat

9. I think little of crowds when fury rises
Even if they attack with bites and scratches

10. My peers have done me no harm when we meet
With no stabbing or striking me there with malice

11. My viewpoint in trials does not fail or wane
Even when the stars swiftly disappear at night's onset

12. When a clever plan hides its secret
Laying an ambush of feared evil, I surrender to it

13. Secrets reveal themselves to me in their hiding places
Of their movements, both open and concealed

14. With perception like seeing, not divided
Nor when conjectures are tossed aside and rejected

15. The seals of mysteries open for me
While the seal of my secrets remains untouched

16. I have patience with truth even when it worries me
Were there deficiency in my patience, it would show

17. I know glory jokes with its people
That it is not about height or width

18. My critic relies on blaming the glorious
Seeing the flaw of criticism as foolishness

19. When manners narrow, my nature expands
To a capacity equal to it, it leads

20. I am one who roams far on his mount
Caring little for the tiring of what I spur

21. I sell distaste of travel for joy of arrival
When my thirsty eye is sated from being shut

22. It is not that I am ignorant of comfort
But I have seen lowness stick to lowness

23. I strive to attain glory, exerting myself
After that, is there anything my goal demands?

24. If I wished, I could give rest to tired eyes
And incline my sides to a dormant body

25. Yet I am the knotting and unknotting of favors
Though I do not complain of the tedium of untying

26. My ambition carries thirst to the watering place
Keen to take the paths of water and distant meadows

27. When a people rise up and fall short
I have the right that my effort completes it

28. I extend a hand of wide palm and generous eye
That cannot be told, "Lower your gaze!"