1. With what boundaries was poetry bounded before you
And with what shackles were sense and thought shackled

2. Based on what the Greeks saw and their method was their method
The generations flowed after the generations and the age after the age

3. And their example remained an example of eloquence
And their affair until you came was the affair

4. So when the good nature that guided you saw
That bondage no matter how it was is bondage

5. And that liberation from an entrenched passion
Is an ordeal according to its extent great pride

6. And that emancipated minds were liberated
And it was time for the free pen to lead them

7. You unleashed the springs of eloquence all
And what was attainable from it was the little

8. So for God the value of genius it is
An outpouring when the pearls of others ebb

9. For it in purpose is strong determination and its voice
Its solemn and gentle murmur accompanies it

10. It was watered by plants and each got its share
Of beauty in life and the flower was not deprived

11. So from which horizons in life and its people
And in the universe and events did you swoop, O eagle

12. And in which art of its arts of beauty
Did prosody fail you or prose miss you

13. The course of the eras is seen in what you planned
Confrontations, and it is the inscription with the eye and the ink

14. And the eras elapse from us in a scene
And it is but a line followed by a line

15. You have come with the innovation which became a tradition
Yours is the merit in it enduring and yours is the mention

16. And competing with you in the new conquest are horsemen
Victory in its aftermath is shared between you