1. If time is blamed for anything, it is the Lord of time that is meant
And time itself is but a servant and an attendant

2. The origin of this sun tires your mind to grasp
And the heart knows it to be eternal

3. The easiest of all beings beneath which every world subsists
And no bare, hard sword can reach the epochs

4. When they pass, they do not return, and behind them
Are similar epochs, past and future

5. Nothing that is gone with their passing is lost
Nor is the renewed moment ever lacking

6. It is as if you had given souls to statues
And now regret having wasted them

7. Adam is not one in the way of reason
Rather, by analogy, he is perishable

8. The aims have differed of people and of one remembering
And one asking, and one longing, and one destroying