1. Marvels are their deeds, marvels indeed
The words accord, though the sequel does not agree

2. With might they defend me against the gainsayer
Lances, if ambition brings me near

3. I say, though I have cast peace aside
And some with other in my heart collides

4. Why throng ye round from every tempting maze
As though against my heart your wills ye raise

5. Man's purpose is only his cares
Unless what Allah fashions he bears

6. I have two hearts, one cured, one sick
As I have two tears, one checked, one quick

7. Lo, the foes of hearts are the eyes
As the foes of eyes are the veils and spies

8. A wounded heart my breast within
From my cheek flows yellow and thin

9. For you my state speaks though I strive not
And my words you understand though I speak not

10. I wept, though for my heart I felt no care
With copious tears my eyes began to wear

11. A lofty one, yet my gaze on high is free
Each gazes as far as his sight can see

12. I purposed, but I have none save a power prepared
For a habitation of fear, empty and scared

13. The mention of the knight now gone is mute
For its knights are my person, fame is its repute

14. A hero whose company I feared in the wild
Defends me with his might and is my shield

15. Meet guerdon for what he risks as my provider
And upon him devolves all that betides

16. When their swords for the foe are awake at dawn
No fear has any place, all rest withdrawn

17. Their sway in men's souls by decree is bound
Evidence thereof in the wilds is found

18. Hotly he hastens on the day of gain
And in reverse on the day of gifts to attain

19. The Commander of the Faithful, his affairs
Find furtherance in the counsel that he bears

20. The paragon of the Faith comes as his deed
Comes your action, O Bakjur, among its breed

21. You refuse to be matched with kings however great
Dark in onset, white in fury'sWeight

22. To your horses the attack and retreat are one
As though the doomed man were still to run

23. What your horsemen thereby scale of fame
Among the horse is to the people's tongues the same

24. You have wrought such deeds as shall e'er remembered be
Though engendered by your might, a part of thee

25. Unseen by us is naught of what is yours
Your light therein assuredly endures

26. I say, and none but I of men says this,
None hears but you in all the crowd's abyss

27. Each has his poetry, but my way herein
However difficult, is spacious and free

28. When steeds appear, yours are wholly fleetest found
At the onset, the foremost to astound

29. Deem as you please in seeking loftiest place
For in your course each man of might is bound