1. Dreams are like medicine, their taste is bitter,
Their benefit concealed, and patience a healer,

2. Poverty's an illness with humiliation worse than its pain,
Especially with scarce supporters to entertain.

3. Though fate's blows and retreats alternate duly,
I'm unshaken, fortunes change daily.

4. Only three tribulations subdue me:
Illness lingering, beloved's absence, poverty.

5. Home is where you can live; should it fail you,
It becomes neighbourless, no home avail you.