1. They say when the raven whitens
It portends the scattering of every friend

2. Yet did they ask the raven with his ravenness
If he portends his own scattering and wealth

3. Time has been unjust to me until
The buzzard seems to me the best justice

4. So here I am grown old and my youth has grayed
And I've never seen one of my years so gray

5. Let him come to his family, he who said one day
When the raven grays, I will come to my family