1. Do not be troubled by the vicissitudes of fate,
For when you are troubled, incline towards patience,

2. Patience is finest in all matters, even if it is agonizing,
And the days' troublemaking is but a passing annoyance.

3. Do not blame the shining celestial sphere for your sorrow,
Or its relentless motion from palace to palace.

4. Death has taken the vigorous with its arrow,
Between the heedless and the throats of the valiant.

5. Whoever dies has passed on, and whoever remains,
Their appointment to join him comes at the Resurrection.

6. So accept the unseen ordained by the days,
For the fate of those who remain is the grave.

7. Put an end to your deceitful hopes with resignation,
And rest your despair in the field of your chest.

8. There is nothing in time that will not come to pass,
In ease or hardship when its moment arrives.

9. Though the living walk among creation unconstrained,
Cast by dire poverty into the refuse pit.

10. So when fate softens its edge,
Seize the pleasure, wary of betrayal.

11. For perhaps your last day with it
Will bring you the utmost beauty before you know.