1. It is a day as you can see
Beautiful in its features

2. The dove's lament did rise
In song with nightingales

3. And to the caravan of clouds
Truth is like falsehood

4. As the water that did flow
From sculpted ewers

5. Its sun did shine in the midst
Of tangled circumstances

6. While time's pillar leans
Without slope or tilt

7. When the heat of passion
Matched the chill of cool breezes

8. And the meadow donned
Jewels and anklets

9. So in weakness you can see
Wild deer tamed and docile

10. O you of jest and union
Sending messages far

11. Rivaling the reasonable
Matching the ignorant

12. While foes stubbornly deny
The obvious signs

13. Cast off the shackles of debate
By hunting down debaters

14. Of hardened bones and tender
Flesh of supple joints

15. It is more guided than misguidance
On the warrior's path

16. How often did we rise at dawn
To the tents of far flung foes

17. Then the voiceless warrior roared
Shaking his chains

18. And turned from desires
Seeking battle's risks

19. With knives held steady
In his clenched fists

20. Honed to razors' sharpness
Like sickles gleaming

21. Rising behind the risen
Falling behind the fallen

22. Then to a dusky twilight
He tumbled headlong

23. Folding between bullets
And cannonballs

24. Toward a quarter filled with glory
And hard won honors

25. Where you see in your comrades
Sweet waters plentiful

26. From minds addled
By the wiles of Babylon

27. Then when the night restrains
All censurers and critics

28. The beddings murmur
Under arms clashing