1. You have demolished while I build anew
So rise to your era's pulpit, let them emulate you

2. People never sought misguidance, but
Went astray for their guides were not guided

3. Awaken, Wilson, and take your stand among them
If a reformer ruled them they'd not corrupt

4. They have reached the zenith of their gloomy epoch
So start a path on which they tread

5. Of the ills of politics, none surpasses that
It was created, yet no one wants it

6. If unchained it's led, if all mankind
Were chained by it or did its chaining

7. Freedom in speech but slavery in all we see
A fiery one have I not seen its men

8. Lit or quenched as their deeds inclined
And if of it you expect any mercy

9. Be of rigid iron for it is frozen
Swords clash and pierce ribs, do you think

10. They have hearts that grieve or are glad?
Tears grow no plants in the soil, so if

11. They water crops, what harvest you reap?
Wilson, they made it a home and refuge

12. For people prone to error or intent
It struck the invalidity of politics a blow

13. That softened all who were hardened
And I knew for certain it is a hot coal

14. On their livers that gives no respite
This one defiant, that devious, all sly foxes

15. And vicious lions in one herd grouped
Had Guillaume not come as he did

16. Another Guillaume had further provoked
How is there peace when all have appetite

17. While others' shares they have starved?
Talon over talon and fang that tears

18. Fang, so where does savagery retreat?
O guide, you showed the straight path plainly

19. Let he who pursues right not hesitate
You spoke with the eloquence of a polished sword

20. You are the sword's hilt in eras' grip
You brought them politics evinced and clear

21. Should they complicate or simplify
This is their habit so let them seek reform

22. For people's ways in life accustom
You fought the war of prophets for the goal

23. That none but the Prophet Muhammad attained
God guaranteed him support in this

24. And so they won since it was revealed and supported
Not for the nations was it revealed, to ransack

25. Their sons, and say rise or sit
Nor for the greedy's goals attained by subjugating

26. And saying live well nourished
But to establish justice over tyrants

27. After they rebelled and transgressed
They made justice for the weak disgrace

28. As if the weak had no virtuous pride
No weak people claimed while ruled

29. By a defiant despot who rejects
You made your people victims of the executioner, so fight

30. In duty's shelter and be helped
They were angels of peace in their war

31. The devils of injustice scattered and dispersed
Their swords did not strike to break

32. A head, but to leash those who unleash
With them they crushed the despot of the world

33. Though the world for his despotism was armored
And they sacrificed themselves in redeeming

34. Freedom, thus rules the master
A martyr's death for a virtuous cause

35. To virtue gives birth and is its cradle
America's sons, what wonders have they wrought

36. On earth, in which America is unique
They created each famed innovation

37. In invention, and fostered concord
Today they make for their time a future

38. That will bloom gloriously tomorrow
What lies beyond America and her seas

39. On land or ocean no awe can equal
Wilson, the root of our evils is money

40. Roots sprout branches spreading far
If you seek the world's good - and nothing

41. Seeks goodness but what you intend
Place the rich where covetousness is impossible

42. And the poor where hatred cannot breed
Teach them that rule is compassion

43. Not tyranny or ordeal
And remind the West that people here

44. Are people, no less or more
God gave the world its hues not that

45. They be colored by His design or confined
The whites were not bleached in their Lord's paradise

46. So why claim their race and brand others black?
Some minds ruling others is a plague

47. Though the loss of one brings another to loss
So rise and take your place, vacillate no more