1. The abodes of the living are desolate, O youth
As if the traces of their civilization are a book

2. The lute player departed from it, and the lute player wandered
Around it after its inhabitants departed

3. Umm Amat accuses me during discord
But how could it be so when youth has passed?

4. Youth passed from me, and I passed from it
As henna passes from the palm

5. To Nasr, and which hero is like Nasr
When the tents are pitched at his singing?

6. You violated the crucifix the morning after
Its fragments among them became summits and crosses

7. Your soldiers cannot be encompassed by description
And your generosity cannot be totaled by accounting

8. And all your mention is beautiful mention
And all your action is wondrous action

9. And Armenia was violent in its onslaught
And by your hand affliction befell it

10. It came to you dragging a sea of iron
With a billow in each direction

11. When its regiments marched upon a land
The hills and plateaus shook

12. So it returned after you had stripped the kingdom from it
As clothes are stripped from the dead

13. So neither its coming brought it near good
Nor its going far from evil

14. So do not listen to the clamor of enemies
For they are flies when they buzz

15. And do not raise your head to one who opposes you
For dogs bark at the lion