1. Indeed Eve, your mother, placed her virginity
In the abode of chastity, protected and sheltered,

2. And none could grasp the pearl of truth, submerged,
Among the people except with intuition and reflection.

3. The nights go by - if they allow glory
To have a beautiful mention, they violently shake with memory,

4. Deceiving with all comprehensions, their countenances,
So let deception meet with deception.

5. A day like an empty heart, and a night
Like one of the daughters of the Negroes playing with the tom-tom,

6. Does the delirious one in luxury know
That the pang of death will wring her from the den?

7. If she is ignorant of that misfortune, it is respite,
And if she is certain of it, then she is in odious news.

8. Leave offspring - offspring whose outcome is death
And the joy of spirit is abandoned for fear of drunkenness.

9. We meet for blame while our state
Is the state of those who meet for thanksgiving.

10. Can the formidable, stalwart one become weak
If the prime of his age does not pass?

11. I herd but do not graze, and the likes of me
Sleep but do not slumber, and hire but do not rent.