1. I heard you speaking and looked into what
you were saying, but it was an impossible thing.

2. Whenever I ask you for evidence in my day
you refer me to tomorrow, postponing.

3. Yes, the crescent moon shone and became full
then went back to its slimness, the fading one.

4. Such is time, rise and fall,
and a pact for which oblivion is the punisher.

5. One group arrives to establish an age
while another is ready to depart.

6. So do not deny when the far off draws near
nor be astonished when the old grows young.