1. They severed the ties of kinship between brothers
They made homelands the misfortune of the nation

2. They sanctified homelands out of admiration for them
They divided man into herds because of them

3. They sought paradise in the misery of settlement
So they made their people the land of destruction

4. This tree bears no fruit but war
Man denied the face of his brothers

5. And so ended the story of humanity
Man's spirit departed and he passed away

6. His peoples remained after he was gone
The politicians assumed the office of religion

7. And so this affliction grew in the West
The story of the religion of Jesus came to an end

8. And its flame faded in its abodes
The bishops were dumbfounded by it

9. The evildoers strayed from administering it
The people of Jesus belittled his covenant

10. They invalidated his statute in their market
The secularist tore the garment of doctrine

11. And the devil came to a prophet
That Florentine worshipper of idols

12. Whose kohl destroyed the light of eyes
He wrote for the angels an abhorrent book

13. And sowed in us the seeds of war
He tore truth with the edge of his pen

14. A innate nature that prefers living in injustice
The age helped make his forgery evident

15. A scheme whose profound thinking is exposed
The king made his religion a god

16. Finding a justification for every evil
He made benefit the criterion of integrity

17. When he bowed down before this idol
Trickery became a perfect art

18. And falsehood grew from knowledge
He weaved for us decay on the path of fate

19. And cast filthiness on the road of time
He blinded people with this wisdom

20. When he claimed hypocrisy in the name of reform