1. The nights refuse to prolong
Misery for people or bliss

2. And the vicissitudes of days
Make the land now white, now black

3. And time in it causes to swerve
The straight path and the direct

4. And man by fortune attains
Grave danger and grand desire

5. And gains his wish though not
Fasting nor wakefulness

6. And when his fortune runs out
His intercessor turns foe

7. While he savours his drink
Until he chokes on it, undiluted

8. And that is time: if it brings forth
It takes back what it gave before

9. Like the wind, it comes raging back
After it began softly blowing

10. It stirs up the dormant coals
And makes the straight spear bend

11. And returns the arrogant eye
To be a hammer, vile and base

12. How many champions has it ruined
Heroes, biting the dust

13. Like she-wolves seperating
The goats from the sheep

14. And one giving orders to armies
But forgot their reins

15. Restless over examples
Until he takes just revenge

16. He will not raise banners
Until he draws copious blood

17. Misfortune blew him away
And scattered that huge crowd

18. And it cast him into the pit
Of misery, stripped of bliss

19. The minister fell though he
Could settle major disputes

20. Now I have become a target
For enemies and their arrows

21. He promoted the eminent
And lit up the dark injustice

22. Until being blamed and abused
Was all that was left for him

23. He removed hardship from the weak
And departed generous

24. Prison did not shame him
Nor was he exiled, despised

25. He destroyed enemies and fate
And built eminence and survived

26. The bearer of heavy burdens
That exhausted and overwhelmed

27. They were sick of him so he bore
Strangeness - he was not accustomed to misery

28. He saved them when they regressed
And was always there for them

29. A face as though the full moon
Lit it with brilliance or stars

30. If he met gloomy night
He would tear night to shreds

31. He dispels worries though some
Faces, if frowning, cause worries

32. The savior deliberated privately
A heart clandestine in counsel

33. And alerted firm resolve when
It was shaken; he found no sleep

34. In command, he suspected both
Familiar and precious

35. Until he rose high, soaring
With them steeply aloft

36. He was the great one though unlike
Him when the great one rode high

37. Strategies making the desolate laugh
Or the forebearing act insane

38. The freeman, fearing passion
Averts momentous events

39. And avoids harm, separated
Taking precautions and armored

40. Agony is lighter for him than
Misery piercing to the core

41. They sent you to it though you
Held back from it, gentle

42. The incapable, despised one is still
When things are in capable hands

43. So he watered your land when you
Were defeated, retreating, vanquished

44. He watered your mention with the tears
From my eyes, constant

45. And God's eye guarded you among
Assailants - settled or roaming