1. A fateful end with no gains or distant exile
His youth did not intercede for him

2. Great hopes did not benefit him
Nor did virtues protect him from torment

3. Nor did resolve repel death from him
Misfortunes were accustomed to humbling him

4. He was a youth for whom space was a domain
To roam with resolve where none respond

5. And traverse the earth seeking the heights
As though the earth in his hand were a book

6. At times descending southwards for him
At others rising northwards for him

7. Once sands beneath his sole
Another time seas beneath his sole

8. While he flew in a sky
With no clouds of hopes

9. Death's arrow struck his wing
And down fell from his lofty flight

10. Now lying blood-stained with dust by force
With ashes of stars dyeing his palms

11. O you the noblest, most honored eagle
And most generous whom dust did claim

12. After you all men are but runts
Nothing but misery and wild beasts roam

13. And nothing disturbed the heart but a call
In Lebanon where the meadows overflow

14. At that burial site a bereft mother
Calling you at dawn with no response

15. Misfortune came to her without waiting
Soon sanity will leave her

16. She stretches her sights to the ocean
Perchance her beloved came near

17. She awaits him at every dawn
She awaits him when dusk arrives

18. O anger that stripped itself for nights
And was not marred by a stab or blow

19. It pains me that before your time
You were prepared and shrouded by your kin