1. There are noble traces of God there,
Whose beauty envied Berlin's masterpieces.

2. Those cannons once brought them down,
When you commanded, and then again Aspelin.

3. What nobility and glory I saw in their absence,
Though all of them are eyes.

4. If you had the likes of them in Berlin,
You would have honored and protected them.

5. Though you destroyed Persepolis,
Its fallen pillar brought down your glory.

6. A temple you unjustly destroyed could not avail it,
Nor could religion restrain you.

7. Do not think your pride lies in what you seized -
True pride lies in good repute held captive.

8. Did you pitch any camp in Berlin but soldiers'?
On which stood forts and impregnable castles?

9. You gathered all your people in one fist -
If you do not relent, you will bend.

10. Your trade organized cities and villages,
The Nile irrigated through it, and Sinai.

11. In every land are bands of your men,
And in every sea are ships from your coast.

12. You march and soar - where is the melody that shades them?
Neither lion disquiets them, nor dragon.

13. The command is yours, the unsheathed sword quiescent,
The prohibition yours, the journey secured.

14. Once your people in Berlin were peaceful,
Filling markets while at rest.

15. Its gates opened to them, their way
Stopped for them, their livelihood assured.

16. Why then did you burden the world and harm it,
Unleashing on it skills for destruction?

17. By God, if your armies gained victory,
The age of peace would end and the inhabited world would empty.

18. Seventy million - if you distributed them
Among cities, we would get one million.

19. Woe to those who colonize their countries!
Famine is the easiest of their afflictions and lightest.

20. You excessively mention God in piety
And claim to be a messenger and trustee.

21. Wonders! You remember Him and His creation fills,
Yet woe that your deluded people live in bliss!

22. Thus the butcher remembers his Lord
While the knife remains in the slaughtered's neck buried.