1. Another story I tell you
The truth opens through it a door to you

2. He said to the diamond, coal of the mine
O ally of light, for ages to shine

3. We two are creations, one father bore us
Our origin in the universe is one source

4. On crowns you are the adornment
While I in dust have been condemned

5. You have beauty in mirrors that gleams
While I from a palmful of dirt it seems

6. From my darkness the embers lit up
And cinders concealed in the gem

7. Trodden underfoot among all of mankind
They cast in my core sparks unkind

8. My state calls for weeping, can't you see
My origin and end, can you see?

9. I'm a coil of smoke that condenses
All that sparks upward ascends

10. While in you is the elegance of stars
Each of your facets radiance bars

11. Once light in Caesar's eye as he gazed
Once an inset that daggers embellished

12. So listen my friend, and understand
The soil ripens till a gem it will stand

13. Waging around it war and bitterness
Growing hardened like stone in its steadfastness

14. My being from ripening shone into light
And from my heart how rays took flight

15. You from the weakness of your constitution decay
And with your fragile form you burn away

16. Forsake fear and sorrow, do not bend
Ripen like rock and diamond, my friend

17. Who strives and works hard night and day
Will like a full moon shine either way

18. And look to the Stone of the Kaaba, mere dirt before
Was lowly dust on the floor

19. It surmounted obstacles, rose high
And all nations come its kiss to try

20. The strength of the living brings honor and glory
While fading and shame comes from frailty so sorry