1. Do your best when trusted, and do not drag
The paths of guidance, for every arrival has a departure.

2. For the sublime world, in what they have narrated,
Are attributes by which the stars' worth is determined.

3. Do you see the crescent, though in it there is no surety?
It inclines towards its fullness and flirts.

4. And it meets with hardship that prolongs its suffering,
So for it are the lodgings of those who spend the night adorning.

5. And it stays for a night in the coveted house.
When it moves on, no misfortune befalls it.

6. The full moon - its light dimmed by clouds and the Pleiades -
Should be content if the transient Phoenix is ruined.

7. The fish, when it controls its spear,
Is a hero conversing with its like and contending.

8. Were you certain before the prohibition that temptation
Is a distracter jesting with its neighbor and flirting?

9. The sun is a flirt extending its threads,
Thus the women of the world are flirts.

10. As for the stars, they are riders
Under time - do they have any descents?

11. O excellent is the refined life, if tremors
Did not demolish the joy from afflictions.

12. Days when the stars of the constellations are still young,
And the lion a cub, and the eagles fledglings.

13. You wished to be fortunate but often
Caprices prevented you from attaining your desire.