1. Peace and mercy be upon you, Mariyana,
With it forgiveness overwhelms and blessings pour,

2. And watering a land that was barren before you,
Your brother, and grazing for his name when mentioned.

3. When Mariyana is gone, collapsed is
A citadel of wisdom that with knowledge was built.

4. The dear one of a people, in whose apparent and secret
Were only traits to be thanked for.

5. She took on what makes the virtuous fall short,
And how much is beneath a matter the ambitious fall short of.

6. So she rose in the renaissance of her gender,
To elevate it while the days plot.

7. So the wrongdoer punished her for every reformer
Who puts forward what he delays.

8. He pretended not to know her and her ways,
As he does with every glorifier, pretending.

9. She who was the literary of her generation,
And for whom the eloquent poetry was untied.

10. The new nights invited her, so she composed
Saying new things, not what people were used to.

11. And in line with the beloved listener’s eccentricity,
And above the convention that custom prefers.

12. Contradicting all the forms that
Have become convention, so they are more subtle and more poetic.

13. Not innovations if their symbols are absent from us
And if they surpass what we envision.

14. You may hear a rhythm that we don’t feel
And you may glimpse in the unknown what we don’t see.

15. That a revelation from the Divine came to her
To awaken souls and warn.

16. And minds cannot grasp resolving an ordeal,
When fate insists on what it dictates.

17.
Did the lighthouse’s brilliance in the darkness startle you

18. When the ship plunges into the height and descends?
And when its lantern lights then disappears

19. For a moment it shines then it rolls up.
It spreads its rays then retracts them as if

20. They are lifelines extended and pulled back.
Succeeding in colors, and without its differences

21. The guided would not be enlightened.
The lamp is unblemished, the purity of its light,

22. And nothing corrupts it but the glass changing.
So Mariyana completed her life,

23. And in her affair is guidance for whoever perceives.
When she finished her course, darkness from existence

24. Also finished for a while, but the light will take revenge.
While that lighthouse faded into the dust,