1. I wish you well, O Time, if you could wish well,
And I fear you, though Time is hoped for and feared.

2. I have cast my traps scattered
On the ground, snakes slithering.

3. Tremors quiver like elflocks,
Biting and rending bite by bite.

4. Time scratches copper from me,
A coat of mail clanging from the sword's engraving.

5. Why should I hide the secret of Time
When it has unveiled my secret and broadcast it?

6. I grew tired walking my Time, and he who
Walks Time, when it twists, how can he walk straight?

7. What was said it built up until it towered,
So it diminished thrones and multiplied thrones.

8. It is fine a while, then does ill,
And it came with no counsel but deceit.

9. It frowns if a man grows meek,
And if a man frowns, it grows meek and gentle.

10. If it is miserly, it is miserly towards the flowing rain,
And if it is generous, it is generous with drizzling and spraying.

11. I set forth in it sincere intercession,
Yet it sent back clouded insights.

12. Still it throws its trimmed one
When a resolute man who fears and covers is thrown.

13. It disturbed and discolored the embroidery of the eminent
With the loss of that embroidered brocade.

14. I lost you and lost the right hand of the North,
Grasping and drawing back, killing and crushing.

15. I lost you and lost a man whose palm
Could be lost in wonder.

16. I lost you and the youth lost his ambitious eye,
Aspiring, glancing, and batting.

17. You were not disgraced by disgraces,
Nor did the cold include you in anything indecent.

18. Among the people are those, if you search their thoughts,
Whose bags contain only wind and emptiness.

19. You look, but other than the perceptive, your Time
So do not you be blind with Time.

20. It is death that takes even the eagle
Though it builds in the sky’s orbit a nest.

21. No human remains nor jinn,
No bird remains nor beast.

22. None remains who, when urged, inclines towards struggle,
Butting the ram of the battalion like a ram.

23. It gave him to drink from the pitcher of pitchers of clouds
A cloud of subtle rain over the grave that grows.

24. It watered his earth with poured heavy rain,
Preserving it with rain keeping corruption away.