1. Why did the revolution flare up, why
Was I deluded or was it my cowardice running out?

2. If you water the land with sufficient rain
Do not be content with sprinkling it with drops

3. And do not let the locusts rule over it
As if you did not find in it a refuge

4. I implore you not to return injustice upon us
You, like others, have been granted might and refuge

5. For how many tomorrows laden
With thoughts of yielding to tyrants

6. Who sneakily endeavor that rot returns definitively
Is this who you have allied with, is this?

7. No revolution has ever succeeded outright
For success requires resolve and tact

8. So you who are the epitome of courage, flawless
And far above reproach and harming others

9. Be prudent and strike blows early
God forbid you forget your excellence

10. And cleanse Egypt of the vileness of a generation
Clinging to depravity, pleading for refuge

11. And I do not know if the gallows are mocking
More deserving of them or of decapitation

12. These parasites who have burdened the free for ages
Show them no mercy, even if you are entreated

13. And you dwarves heavy with sins, come
Why are you merciful towards them, why?