1. Welcome, O formidable contender
With your new machine and its gears

2. Welcome, welcome, freedom has declared
Its war on thought, even religions

3. And humiliated the giants at my feet
Deeming them mere worms

4. They were pained that my shoes tread on them
Oh God, how despicable!

5. As if the disgrace he brought upon them
Was honoring them in their disgrace

6. O tyrannical ruler, have mercy
You toy with the corpse of time

7. And force your subjects into misery
In selfish madness, oh selfish madness!

8. Knowledge has flooded every age it destroyed
With its innovations, revolutions and floods

9. Nothing remains but relics
And all that's perishable perishes

10. What's past is gone, except the noble revelation
Of arts, and artists' commandments

11. Where are the shackles randomly cast
Upon opinion and suffering free spirit?

12. O East, you were a truthful dawn
For prophecies, commandments and safety

13. How did you become associated with wars, injustice
And slavery - the stigma of mankind?

14. Perhaps I'm powerless to answer
As my torments blaze in the flames

15. The wails of a abased people
Know best the miracles of time