1. What benefit beyond decay do I draw from what's left of life?
Long have I tasted now life's bitterness.

2. Night and day ahd heat, travel and lodging and the grave -
How many sought to probe life's secrets ere we came?

3. But Destiny proclaimed: "You shall not pierce them."
So succour one in poverty with a gift, if you are able,

4. To mend his state, for that is within your power.
Glorified be He who fashioned us,

5. Though no complexity appears in our design.
We live while death stands before us,

6. So gird yourself to cross over.
True wealth lies in contentment, life in humility,

7. Craft in deliberation.