1. In your solitude, I do not console myself
Seeing you in the frightening desert grave

2. In the glow of burning sands
And raging sandy storms

3. You endured the ferocity of winds
With patience of rocks at dawn

4. You settled for the desert
Instead of the shaded grove

5. You sought the loneliness of a hermit there
And isolation of a philosopher

6. Were you once in palaces
And rejected the hospitality of palaces?

7. You refused to build over you
Edifices of disgrace and falsehood

8. So you escaped to the desert
From the clamor of flowers and lutes

9. Rising above the melody of lyres
And the lament of the broken heart

10. Or were you a witness to the death of morals
In the great house

11. So you fled; you indeed
Have the highest feelings

12. Were you an avenger
Of the plots of an unjust attacker

13. And you protected the zeal of the afflicted
And split the zeal of the oppressor

14. And you crouched over his bones
So he screamed under the croucher

15. Were you a dam over which
The floods of the mighty break

16. And over zeal a voice
That guides the lost wanderer

17. If you were that, you sowed
In benevolence, the nature of man

18. You are alone here, and I have
No one. I cannot say I am alone

19. Perplexed, I know not tomorrow's
Path for my escape, an outcast

20. When I sit still as you sat
Sitting harms the soul

21. The soul, O part of eternity
Is restless, and its burden is heaviness

22. It refuses immobility in its purity
And immobility refuses it

23. Tell me, if you have
A new path, right and paved