1. Who am I in this existence, I wonder
And what is my status and position?

2. I am a droplet that gleamed at dawn
Briefly on the bank of the stream

3. Evening will come upon it and it will become
As if it had not glittered nor shone

4. I am a melody placed by life
For one who may perceive and one who may not

5. Silence will walk upon it and it will become
As if it had not passed by a hearing

6. I am a phantom running hastily
With time that runs hastily

7. The curtain will be drawn over it and conceal
As if it had not trotted nor dashed about

8. I am a wave pushed by life
Toward wider and still wider

9. It will dissolve in the shore after a little while
As if it had not been pushed nor pushed

10. So, O heart, be not deluded by youth
And O soul, do not aspire to immortality

11. For old age will pass just as
Youth turned away and did not return

12. But in it there is a wondrous beauty
And in it there is a yearning for the most creative

13. And whoever does not see beauty in what he sees
Is not the most radiant man

14. My homeland, who am I in existence
And what is my status and position?

15. I am you - if you laugh at something
I laugh, and if you cry, I cry

16. And whatever gladdens your souls gladdens me
And whatever pains your livers pains me

17. Are we not from one source
Are we not all bound for one destination?

18. You raised my status and exalted it
For what I have done and not done

19. Is a bird that chirps in the garden and meadow
More deserving of your honor?

20. Or a rising star
Over beds and resting places?

21. I am but one of you, O stars
Whenever you shine, I shine

22. So whoever praises me amongst you
Has praised the palm by the finger

23. And rain is naught but clouds
Nor is a stream but billowing clouds

24. Without you, I would not have been the orator
Nor the sorcerer poet creating masterpieces

25. I am now in an intoxication I do not comprehend
Oh, would that I always do not comprehend!

26. This is a night with all of time
If there was one who gathered it in time

27. O night, for God's sake, stop!
And O dawn, do not rise!

28. If I have built beyond my square
I have found my square in you

29. To my right I will carry in my ribs
Your love for as long as I have ribs

30. And I thank you with the tongue of the breezes
And of the garden and the flowing stream

31. So there is no excuse for a bird if it sees
The beauty of spring and does not warble

32. If tomorrow I am not with you
Then I will go while you are with me