1. The youth meets you with soft, gentle words
Yet in his soul there is a raging fire

2. He gives you kind speech that caresses
But believes in principles as sharp as a sword

3. And man plays in his ignorance
While he is a captive in chains

4. How many days have passed of scheming
Then every knot tied came undone

5. And man is like a merchant in his market
He takes what is given and does not criticize

6. Until when the day has passed he dislikes
What the soul does not find and what it misses

7. I do not resent now one who envied me
If he kept me from a mine of goodness through hatred

8. For this lowly world that you see
Did not last slain and did not remain still