1. Every day brings us new joy,
And happiness follows in succession.

2. Thus go the hardships from each
Youth whose pillar against them is strong.

3. Glory but serves the serious and the earnest;
Days go by and their happiness returns.

4. Our nights have accustomed us to the lute; they desired
Naught but that lute continually.

5. If we possessed, we are from the source of sovereignty
And therefrom are our bodies and hides.

6. We built only as our fathers and forefathers
Used to build in early times,

7. The family of Mirdas, best of men, indeed
If nobility were counted, bright and long-established,

8. Better is he who gathered them inside a wall,
And he who supported under a house of hair a pillar for them.

9. If they inclined to softness, clouds bursting;
If they inclined to hardness, lions.

10. They inherited glory before glory was created
And were generous before generosity was known.

11. The sweetest people, were they to walk on the surface of the earth,
Would surpass the perfume thereof.

12. They smoothed the earth into pillows, by God,
What those pillows contain!

13. O, generous, openhanded one, whom
None but the ignored ignore!

14. May God support you with happiness and may
Your banners gathered never be reversed.