1. Is it a battlefield or the gathering place,
The source of death or the Kawthar?

2. And are these soldiers who obeyed their masters' passions,
Or cattle brought in to be slaughtered?

3. How merciless are the hearts of the oppressors!
They rose at the king's command and monopolized,

4. Deceived by their power in this life,
Going to excess on earth and colonizing.

5. The whites have sworn by their crosses,
They will not flee death or be helped.

6. And the yellows swore by their idols,
They will not sheathe the sword or be victorious.

7. So the earth shook in its pegs,
When the whites and yellows met.

8. It was inebriated by a wine of blood,
With which the Mikado and Caesar toy.

9. On the day of turmoil it resembled its sister,
When the red dusk appeared in it.

10. It began to yearn for its flood,
So it may be purified of its filth.

11. O war, you have satiated the wolves of treachery,
And the vultures and eagles are stuffed.

12. The whales have died in its sea,
And man's greed cannot be fulfilled.

13. If this bear will not be bent,
And that dragon will not be subdued,

14. And the whites will not accept their defeat,
And the yellows after this day will not be broken,

15. Why has that war bared its leg,
Until the armies have decided?

16. The souls of the people flowed over the hills,
So the plain and the rivers overflowed.

17. And it became a mine of rubies,
At which pearls and jewels envy.

18. Rubies which were valued among them
With souls that cannot be counted.

19. The messenger of death among them
Became confused, not knowing what to be ordered.

20. Azrael, have you seen before,
You who are so wise and skilled,

21. That cannon in its might,
When its dreadful sound rises,

22. You see it, if honest on the inside,
Neither armor will bend it, nor shield stop it.

23. Kuro patkin has fallen in distress,
And Oyama spends the night looking.

24. And the Russians are on burning coals,
With glory calling them: Just be patient!

25. And what's wrong with that fleet,
Until the great horror exposed it?

26. Whenever a swimmer appeared to it
Under cover or a gliding boat,

27. Tojo thought it was for him,
So Tojo greeted it, informing:

28. A greeting from an ardent zealot
Whose breath from its heat exhales.

29. Does the Caesar know in his palace
What war declares and what it conceals?

30. So how many dead spent the night atop the ground,
With foxes and eagles disturbing them?

31. And how many wounded stretching out their hands,
Calling their brothers but unable to see?

32. And how many drowned went into an abyss,
In which hills plunge so they don't surface?

33. And how many captives spent the night captive,
Their souls dripping with sorrow?

34. If you don't see peace as best for you,
Then time is too short for your ambitions.

35. War makes us wretched, even if it
Calls the men of the East to take pride.

36. A time has come over the Easterner when,
If the living are mentioned, he is not mentioned.

37. And an era passed by the East in which
It does not pass in mind or register.

38. Until the yellows returned its days,
So the black and brown took revenge.

39. May God's mercy be upon a nation
Whose history narrates what is to be preferred.