1. Joyous on feast days are those who find pleasure,
And he who revels in his wealth and abundance.

2. A youth whose days laughed and whose times
Brought him ease and lifted him from the hardship of fate.

3. Ask me not how my feast day is, for I
Saw the frail state that has no worth.

4. Ask the state about my feast day, and ask it not,
For the tongue of the youth in hardship is silenced by poverty.

5. A lonesome, lonely, poor young man, his head bowed,
And his companion poverty, so fortune has hardened against him.