Iskandar's Last Words on the Open Plain

From D5.37, The Death of Iskandar. It illustrates D5.37.2–12:

D5.37.2
He bade them take his throne from out the hall,Into the open plain before them all.
D5.37.3
The soldiers wept to see his pallid face,As sorrow filled the wide and open space.
D5.37.4
They seethed as though a fire beneath them burned,And all the plain to cries of anguish turned.
D5.37.5
All cried, “What grief has fallen on our state!The Romans lose their king to bitter fate.
D5.37.6
Now comes the evil turn of fortune’s hand;From this day ruin threatens Rum’s whole land.
D5.37.7
Our foes have gained the answer to their prayers;The goal they strove to reach is wholly theirs.
D5.37.8
The world has turned to bitterness and pain;In hall and home our mourning shall remain.”
D5.37.9
Then Caesar spoke in accents soft and clear:“Through life, hold judgment and restraint most dear.
D5.37.10
If soul and body both would prosper well,Observe the final counsel that I tell.
D5.37.11
The doom that strikes me waits for you, for all; On every head the hand of fate must fall.”
D5.37.12
He spoke these words, then drew his final breath,And he who shattered armies sank in death.