1. Still do your excellence and nobility raise you
Until out of envy the stars have turned green for you

2. Kings ascend yet you ascend above them
As though they failed to ascend properly

3. Away with your wretched envious enemies
For the envy of the envious is a despised trait

4. The flaw of the envious is that grandeur
Has avoided the envious but not those envied

5. As for the glorious one, if you have heard of a singular one
Who surpassed all humanity, that's the unique one

6. He surpassed the generous and they failed to catch up
With the least of his bounds and strayed from following his guidance

7. Praise flowed through him and the heights
Became priceless to the honorable, never deprecated

8. The lands emptied of the generous and only
The bastions had magnanimous ones who were sought

9. If a people lived who freed him, their freeing would have delighted him
As would what they sired have delighted him

10. They built him towering glory upon glory
And he prospered and built atop all they erected

11. Not all who inherited virtues continue them
Nor are all sons of stallions lords

12. O excellent is that virtuous scion and excellent
Is that carpenter, and excellent is that devotee

13. Of lords who made virtues their habit
And for every people in grandeur what they are accustomed to

14. A people when they witness war don they
Of their might the sharpest of what they are adorned with

15. O master of princes, the prayer of a grateful one
Who does not deny favor amongst the ungrateful

16. Indeed, the subjects have drunk the love of you into their hearts
As the rainclouds drink the pouring rain

17. And in their depths they felt the loss of your brother
Like a fire that takes the place of what they have not kindled

18. And they refrained from rejoicing on a night
When dust settled on the sheathed swords

19. They abandoned joy and grief at negligence
That they were not gentle did not accustom them

20. They followed your passion so if you commanded all
To refrain from their festivals, they would not celebrate

21. So make peace with them, and if you make peace, they will
Be secure whether blamed or aided