1. How many yards are between me and these days?
And from time and its evils, how many yards?

2. Concealment, stinginess, avoidance, and desire,
Veils like you below us, are veils.

3. If this youth were to leave the world and his wishes,
You would find him rebelling or hesitating.

4. In the evening he condemns the cowardly, asserting,
And God is witness that he is a coward.

5. And when wealth obliges the wealthy for its sake,
He seeks the helper, and that is poverty.

6. And how often an estimable and eminent man ascended,
Then met his death in that which he chose.