1. I was disturbed, but not by folly in the moon, or a mirage in the haze,
Rather, by all my past with the noble scion of the south, the noble lineage,

2. Like my father, the most generous of all people, is anyone like him found in the clouds?
If you are a neighbor of a neighbor who has him, how can you fear the turns of fate?

3. He is the tallest of stems and branches, and grows to the good of his ancestors,
He points to them - can the new moon avoid its origin in the full moon?

4. He sees glory as the best thing to attain, and praise as the noblest thing to gain,
Noble in ambition, refined in manners, strange of dew, prohibition, and discipline,

5. A young man forever enamored with the sublime, tempted by generosity, and dedicated to glory,
He grew accustomed to dispelling hardship, relieving affliction, and revealing anguish through generosity.