1. O soul, lighten your burden
For you have made my burden heavy

2. I only improve what spoils my mind
From your affairs

3. I am not pleased with the glory for you
That would cause my humiliation

4. And the passion of most and living
Is hoped for with less

5. I have held on to something vanishing
From the life

6. And clung to a necklace like unraveling
So if you try to achieve

7. Ignorance upon ignorance
O dust-born mortals, how perishable you are

8. We bid you farewell while none remains
Except like one who prays

9. We have shed for you from our tears
The efforts of one who sheds few

10. And we have followed you from wandering
With a burning torch

11. How lengthy is my talk in a night
Of thoughts leading astray

12. Who will spend the dark night with me
And who will be with me in the dawn