1. O you who wept when fate was cruelly harsh
What can the weeping one do but resign?

2. The bloom of youth came to life submitting
Its farewells at the station of resignation

3. Henry passed away in the prime of life
To grieve him overly is not kind

4. None greener than he, of purer soul
Than any baseness, any blemish mean

5. None nobler, of more abundant justice
Of finer manners and profounder lore

6. Greatest in the torment of his people, his land
For he gave hope to every great one

7. What words, though exalted by inspiration
Can soothe the wounds of your suffering heart?

8. But such is the Wise One's destined decree
No reasonable soul doubts its hidden wisdom

9. So steel your heart for those left behind
For they are frail, while you are generous

10. The rights of children are binding on you
Shelter of the estranged, refuge of the deprived

11. Why should I console Yusuf in his trial
When he welcomes adversity, undaunted by the worst?

12. The days have not concealed from him their course
Nor has his age-old knowledge led him astray

13. Who faces each tribulation as he has
With patience, with wise acquiescence

14. It is enough support that she who bore his sons
Shares now his calamity, his truest partner

15. Her faith bears adversity beyond compare
How could a gentle constitution weather such storms?

16. Reason ruled by clearness is reason sound
While feeling ruled by kindness is feeling humane

17. O you both who obeyed His will contentedly
Whether sooner or later it came to pass

18. For he who lives on in your hearts and ideals
Moves from breast to breast, resident forever

19. He is gone, with no worldly speck to veil
The manifestation of his timeless Lord

20. Where are those left? And where his place
Of eternal triumph and bliss?