Funeral Games

Stand up please, queen mother
You made no coarse mistake
He is also Alexander
In the dawn of divine day
Salute him as such
He must be honored very much

The great winged leopard
Rising from the shadowy depths
Saddled up so the king can ride hard
The other face of relentless death
Creature hatched from Adam
The omen against the Persians

Raise the conspicuous horn, a hero
The guardian of Macedonia
Bow down to mighty he-goat
You can’t save Memnon at Aegean

Rise, rise, rise, rise again!
Die, rise, die, and rise again!

The well-wisher who fights
All the king’s battles
Seems to be ailing and tired
Sheol enfetters him with its shackles
Swaying the sledgehammer of death
Smashing the fifth head