1. One's form differs from another's in life
Yet if both perish, no difference lies between the two

2. And he who is disconnected from his time and its people
Finds fault with them whether in the west or east of the world

3. He finds their words weak and their love little
Their good evil and their deeds ragged

4. And their glad tidings deception and their poverty riches
Their knowledge ignorance and their wisdom motley

5. O dogs, how many plants have you shepherded before them
A band who in their dens saw lightning

6. And endured in plenty and turned to consent
And resorted to lofty ruins

7. And the night extended darkness unto darkness
While it watched with its blue, twinkling stars

8. When a cloud rises in it, it vanishes
With its passing like a black maid, it sweats

9. And they passed by the goal of the dove and left
Young doves gathered in it, tender leaves

10. We have seen the affairs of fate lowered and raised
While we are captives to events or drowned

11. The desire of the invalid falls like rain from the clouds and rises
Depressed like the bray of a hoof stomping

12. So do not feel secure with a treacherous left or right
That makes enemies and leaves no tent or distinction

13. It pierces the coat of armor with its spear points
Even if it tastes bitter when swallowed

14. When they seek the heights, they make
With the summits in your grounds, roads

15. If you are leaves of tamarisk, locusts of arrows come to you
To destroy you leaf by leaf

16. Visitor of worries, did you find me to be excusing
When you do not find me near a camp, paths

17. And thirst has made me incapable, with which I remove sedation
There is no life if I do not drink the turbid road

18. People are mountains, lofty peaks in the earth
And valleys that do not reach the heights and lightning

19. One drunk creeps and gives away a cloak
While another sober minded becomes angry if he climbs