1. These caravans have become sluggish,
And brought us little news.

2. The world has certainly cheated me for a time,
And death will perform my final ablution.

3. How much wonder and calamity I have witnessed,
As the passage of fate strips man bare.

4. The changing of one dynasty for another,
The advent of creeds and the sending of prophets.

5. None have seen any good in this life,
Nor cease grooming their steeds.

6. If my sons were the best of their age,
I would not prefer that they beget offspring.

7. So how is it when I know that the likes of me
Are miserable wretches who bring nothing but ruin?