1. Is there any escape from a state,
Of a swindled lord in a bad deal?

2. Or from old age overtaking the youth,
Selling with exuberance which enthralls?

3. How can I live a life in which,
After the prime of youth's balance,

4. Whoever sells his youth for old age, has sold
Cheaply, from the most precious gems.

5. If the elderly man gains in the craft of
Selling and exchanging money for money,

6. He would not have sold a night of his youth,
For nights of his old age.

7. And for each life has a path,
The old man's is unlike the young man's.

8. I have tasted all kinds of that life,
Still anew, with affliction and trials,

9. And worn youth when still unripe,
And roamed as one exotic and strange.