1. When life polishes the mirror of her mind,
She shows you not truly precious at all.

2. So evil was your abode, may God keep you far away!
The worst lodger of all from mankind.

3. One by one, all have gone from that place,
Will it too one day go, left vacant and bare?

4. A robe of shredded darkness amazes me,
With threads of radiant dawn, gleaming and fair.

5. The days are many and they will not cease,
To bring regrets that mourners bitterly wail,

6. Misleading even travelers mid-journey,
With wine more pure than stars when they pale.

7. And what can dust that eats all things divide
Between two bodies, one gaunt and one hale?