1. If you wish to transcend your wall one time
For some matter, then first notify your neighbor

2. And do not surprise him with your rising, lest
The young man be stricken by your violating his privacy

3. And man continues to be tempted by his imaginings
And his gait until he walked bound in shackles

4. Verily the path of good for a man is clear
Until a day he settles, then the paths are cut off

5. And he hears the words of men blaming him
While arrows in their settling are lighter than them

6. He visits the abodes of beautiful women against their will
And departs from them while his heart within him melts

7. When the pleasures of life have passed and withered
The grown hyena asks not what the cub has done

8. I clung to the rope of life for fifty pilgrimages
So it frayed until it almost snapped

9. Does rainfall descending on shifting sands avail
When the clouds have cruelly withheld their gift?