1. My eyes averting preserved my body for a time
From sprawling in the ruins of collapsed dreams

2. And if the pitch-dark night refuses you in a land
Whose expanses deception and guile scheme

3. I love life though faults enough for me
That I live masking myself and sly

4. We ask fate for free men yet it shows us
Two excuses: bankruptcy and ruin surely

5. So keep your talk hidden, let no one detect
Neither Gabriel’s folk nor Iblis’ sect

6. And I knew, and others from observing
The exalted are not the noisy meaningless mob

7. And the day I made my ignorant neighbors my friends
Was the day I lost all standards and principles