1. Banks have branches reaching high and deep roots
Your kingdom, the sun does not set on it

2. Your prosperity in proverbs went far and was not
Matched in the fortune of kings

3. No people before you witnessed a master
Obeyed by his obedient people raging

4. No commander they call upon but he hears
Fate itself listens when he speaks

5. So when mourning overwhelmed them
No eye without kohl from crying

6. Can these hands and all the glory fail
To return from mourning tired

7. And ransom you soldiers in wars proud
While you without an arrow piercing the slain

8. I wondered that it was bound and pillowed
Its rule in the two abodes circulates

9. It was like a fixed star which fate removed
Fate that showed us how stars disappear

10. As if all people the day you left
Were orphans mourning and weeping

11. As if the crowded palaces with their masses
Were ruins devoid of plants and hills

12. As if the stars of night were guards of her sleep
And her lights like pouring tears

13. As if the sun rising after its disappearance
Is to see the state of beauty transformed

14. As if the armies of land walked in her funeral
Mountains and sand dunes ascending and descending

15. As if the navies of the seas walked
Therein anxiously, the billows terrified

16. Oh how great the glory that was no refuge
Against death, ancient and noble

17. Oh how long the life an instant ends
And is a life hostage to demise long?