1. O you whose glory encompasses all glory
None can enter except through you, and none but you

2. You have borne the highest virtues, carrying them all
Yet each sees them above your shoulder, never behind

3. A cloud that rains for the glorious and the wicked alike
Meteing out justice or affliction as it must

4. When seated in counsel, your companions
Recall Solomon son of David and the ant

5. And if they appoint you rank after rank
They are but a woman seeking her husband

6. And if they dismiss you from leadership
Leaders of glory never knew dismissal

7. When you built high, though joy streamed forth
You saw in the rights of glory, exaltation must follow

8. To you we complained of your servant, Time
Killing us with ignorance, killing you with knowledge

9. And events have lamed me, so bitter their tide
Had they sense, I would oblige them to act sensibly

10. Let not Time think it ever harmed me
My arrows exhausted themselves shooting arrows

11. I will keep your virtues alive through the days
Reciting verses that immortalize your glorious signs

12. I confide my passion to the breeze in a message
Did it say what I confided, or nothing at all?