1. This era's malady rejects all remedy
And its foot, I see, is an impure disease

2. A thought that embellished for some folks affairs
So they permitted vulgarity and vileness

3. A group who turned wine-cups into idols
And people who cast at it impurity

4. Many a stead as if it were a star in glory
Came to it the doubt of time, so it was degraded

5. And the youth is not safe from time's injury
Even if his person were an armored fortress