1. Are you content with kingship, O trusted one,
You were spared the vicissitudes of fickle time,

2. So that the kingdom is adorned that you live in it
With the status of the beloved among the beloved.

3. Had you wished as you deserve, you would have been
In its place, the crown over the highest forehead.

4. You rose with resolve and fortitude,
And excelled in magnanimity and faith.

5. So you are never without abundant grace
Upon the healthy, and clear favor.

6. As if you were set free to go and return
Whose water overflowed from the hands of clouds.

7. The purity of character and beauty of manner,
So happiness to hearts and eyes.

8. Like the days of youth, beautiful and leafy,
And the days of youth and passion.

9. I thought the best of you, so you were worthy
Of my supposition and the suppositions of hopes.

10. The clouds of your help did not rain
Except I drew the cascades of protected praise.

11. So why did I lose favor, when I was one
To whom longing pulls, full of yearning?

12. After my attachment to you, seeking refuge,
And my taking hold of the firm rope?

13. One not like me is nominated for highness,
And one below me is invited to wealth.

14. I see the sticks of people not my limbs
Laden with fruits, bending the branches.

15. What is wrong with me that I do not devote my life to you
When those behind me surpass me?

16. I do not say this out of envy for the free man
Whom time made insane.

17. Rather, general blessings
Are more worthy of the quality of pouring rain.

18. Indeed, time has tied my hands and exhausted me
Of its playgrounds of fleeting fortune.

19. I did not implore the outpouring of your help until
It distracted me with volatile war.

20. You remained for the soul of a weary prisoner
Who calls you, so relieve a captive.

21. And you lived envied by days, rising
To the most high, cut off from an equal.