1. O guide to the valley of annihilation
My sweet hopes in your valley have fallen

2. In my fancy I built a palace of hope
Yet its bricks are scattered by the winds

3. As if I had tried to scale mountains
Or cling to the cause of the moon

4. Or seek the star at noon
Or the sun at dawn

5. No, by my life, I never attempted the impossible
Except that people in life have dispositions

6. The expanse of living made me complacent
And the mask of dignity is expensive, not for sale

7. Nothing is costlier than my refusal to extend my hands
So let time extend its hands to the rest

8. I seek nothing but sustenance
And if deprived, I shall not lament it

9. How sweet is living in the shade of hope!
So swim, my soul, in the air of fantasy

10. Say not "it is not," but say "perhaps"
And rise above despair, rise above