1. You have endured tribulations beyond your limit,
Afflictions that have exhausted your patience.

2. How far did ambition reach,
Yearning were time to restore it.

3. The resolve of glory aimed straight at you,
Time has magnified its perils.

4. Who can feel safe from vicissitudes
When their claws have sunk into you?

5. Your generosity burdened it beyond its capacity,
It has come seeking vengeance.

6. It will make you weep if an empire endures,
The noble traits have chosen you.

7. Who will protect it when legions
Mobilize and besiege its abodes?

8. Who will witness war but the valiant
When fear makes its supporters vanish?

9. Who will make his sword a barrier,
To veil its disgrace?

10. Who will multiply its enviers
And diminish its beholders?

11. Who can restrain it when matters require
The people cannot articulate them?

12. Who will prolong the striking of swords
Until he shortens their lives?

13. May God water your soil each day
With the sky's shyness and its rains.

14. It turned away just as the rain clouds dissipated
Entrusting the land with their traces.

15. It passed, fulfilling thanks for its blessings—
The breeze of meadows and their lights.

16. O people, if the truth becomes clear,
Skills have apprised us of its chronicles.

17. Each day I see incidents befall us—
For which we kindle fires.

18. Oh, how I wish—though wishing is futile—
When will war relieve its burdens?

19. The duty of this intrepid hero is inviolable;
Death does not intimidate his determination.

20. Fates claim their souls
And inform fate of their good news.

21. We fled with ourselves while destiny
Precedes in bringing them.

22. No selves have recognized protection
If they could refuse it.

23. When fortune comes to a youth,
He anticipates its retreat with death.

24. How can one whose share of life
Is not rewarded taste its purity?

25. The life of one whom loyalty befriended
Lasts but a stage he traveled.