1. Hark, O exalted King!

    Should one of the kings become a generous giver,

  2. lend my verse your attentive ear; from you it will return,

    for all time, its ill-boding flight transformed into an auspicious one.

  3. By listening to it, grant it a station

    whose loftiness outstrips the upward-straining gaze.

  4. For I did not praise you in my verse to magnify you;

    rather, through you I praised praise itself.

Sol 5.6