1. Do not be amazed, for fate holds no amazement
Nor any refuge from God, no escape

2. O excellency, do not despair of what you are stricken with
Who contends with fate, it lays him low on his knees

3. How many a noble was raised in the abode of a kingdom
Yet came to you depressed, full of cares and hardship

4. You made him feel from you humiliation and deficiency
And he failed in you, and the Lord of the Throne, he did not fail

5. What female glance looked to you full of love
Until it saw you clinging to a branch of the west