1. If only they had followed me, woe to them!
I would have guided them

2. To the truth, or an approach close to it.
For I have lived until I grew weary and bored

3. Of my time, and experience admonished me.
When my time comes, the educated will find fault with me

4. Without assistance, and the Fool will strike me.
Yet over the ignorant we ride a docile beast

5. That no hand of a destroyer has tamed.
Who will give me a vast land that none can violate

6. Except me, rivaling the closeness of kindred?
For the youth there is only solitude and loneliness

7. If he is not granted the reaching of aspirations.
So make war or make peace as you wish, for the brother