1. Heed not the nights, for they're fleeting
Their sorrows and griefs won't last

2. Like the dress of a happy bride changing
Her veil unveils as she passes

3. Fret not o'er tribulations in their turns
In the folds of hardship goodness yearns

4. If you see the whims of fate as errands run
You'll know all decrees will come and gone

5. And if you ponder ruins you'd ravage
With the tempest of thoughts you'd enrage

6. Whoso made the mind for what he values dwell
Save by reason, deafened thought he does impel

7. Man's thought on what he owns not by his Lord
Is but an errant thought that's abhorred

8. Heed not your wisdom when ordained a blow
That may shatter your nose you seek to forego

9. Resolve and decrees flow unrestrained
By accepting whatever's ordained

10. Endure the nights' turns with endurance
Knowing their states do alternate

11. While shackled by worries in their disgrace
Rise with resolve and to hope give chase

12. Let your deeds have aid that brings victory
Of certainty that states alternate

13. If the noble saw how glories shine
From disasters, griefs cease to pine

14. Glory of the noble what flaws show in sword
If flaws they be, the blade hones for its lord

15. Peaks of merits show the evil in its side
For they're the foil that makes virtues abide

16. Hardships' blows steel patience that's molded
Meet affairs with the temper he's shouldered

17. And maker of men, neither debased nor exalted
By what you fancy, a man's mettle vaulted

18. And wear for your age if you can't refine it
What defects embellish, their faults delimited

19. Why care I for time's twisting travails?
As if my patience for its injustices fails

20. My merit's a speck in the age's eye
It knows it's a balm on its wounds that lie

21. My care's an arrow in its dictation
My path on high shackled to its leg by causation

22. When I rise for my rights in high station
Hardships block my resolve's realization

23. No scheme comes to me but with duplicity
Without fulfillment disasters blaze hostility

24. Glories I attain where no contention rises
Save pitfalls of time and injustice that chastises

25. No merit makes me glad if dangers appear
On it looming, ruin that hounds it to fear

26. High ambition seems lofty despite pains
As if hardships pave paths that high aims attain

27. Glory can gain glory from baseness sprung
As gems' luster revealed when facets are strung

28. To time I say send forth your combat
Lest I fear its plan and panic beget

29. Give your cup be it mead or venom applied
To me the sweet and bitter are equal inside

30. Of remnants I disdain but the noble deed
That meets demise by a covert hand's miscreed

31. When misfortunes narrow my breach
There's scope, and the nights' tribulations fleece

32. I did not witness ordered affairs
Without opposites before them that were

33. I trust not the age's lenience or neglect
Capricious in loyalty and betrayal unchecked

34. How sweet is life but for the dread
That attends the feast, anxiety dispread

35. I frequent no water that has turbid flow
Unless age turbid waters to me bestow

36. Would that misfortunes not exceed partaking
My feast nor hands of time betray in forsaking

37. If when spent their vigor, my will does not
Rush to meet them shaken and distraught

38. So resolve may know, though my feet may slip
I stand on resolve that does not relinquish grip

39. Drive back your concerns for dangers are potent
Only the inactive and helpless bemoan

40. If you miss the mark of sincere endeavor
Make your care obtaining it your endeavor

41. Whom God grants patience for what his soul abhors
He's involved in goodness, though it he deplores

42. Merit of resolve from what you can't withstand
Is will of excellence for what you intend

43. For a moment I wore a robe honor brought
Like shreds do, honor from me was caught

44. Thus I never fretted for loss of good in my grip
Nor was I distraught for coming ills that equip

45. I turned the age's turns with upright air
Esteemed by glory's gaze, its gifts I bear

46. Until mired in bond so my fervor was quelled
And my patience cannot be felled

47. In my heyday, days rushed to greet
With welcome, as days opportune and meet

48. Is not my being beyond all compares?
Its turns are but ruin and villainy snares

49. Vain hopes bar all my pursuits
In time's brow or beneath its foot

50. Fortune's a dry well with toothless guise
Feigning hopes while my term it does surveil

51. I watch resolve in my aid though it declaims
No camel or steed do I rein

52. This my defense, though ambition unincorporated
No baseness in me or negligence demonstrated

53. What's the fault of wish that fate does strangulate?
Its affair and God's writ do arbitrate

54. Morn I rose, time so hostile to me
Galling my nobility ceaselessly

55. If I jest it lures me into its net
If I bristle schemes against me are set

56. If I spread my mirth it mocks my mirth spread
Citing the folly of judgement misled

57. Wealth is nothing to esteem and withhold
Where merit should reign, the void's controlled

58. Worth binding distress does not purify
But God's bounty, peerless, sanctified

59. Wealth's realities were in giving obscured
No worth when pursuits from giving deterred

60. More obligated when spoils are deprived
For only giving and favor provide

61. Wealth quickly winds erode, for only
From bounty's essence are bonds strongly

62. Merit's pedigree no contests withstand
Unlike fleeting treasures sifted through sand

63. God's guarantee to man is enough
So why scheme and haste, impatient in rush?

64. If by schemes you secure tomorrow's fare
Return from your plot, its ruses ensnare

65. Nay, schemes are helpless to what's ordained
No plot or fervor prevail self-contained

66. Be firm in belief in what God decrees
Sure to provide you, no loss He foresees

67. No thing do I know time does not ken
Yet my judgement it finds beyond its pen

68. Does time know not when I stir its abysses?
No obstacles swerve me from entering its crevices

69. Have I met a flame while darkness lies ahead?
My words and deeds like two swords keenly wed

70. Have I donned glory's armor none could attain?
Not rivaled by the twins Gemini's domain

71. I'm the son of resolute and restless affair
Steadfast in principle fixed like the stair

72. Though days absolve me of errancy's blot
In ignorance of my make they could not

73. They veer into my phases of glory and invert
I do not commit to what comes not to revert

74. I engaged its phases until I took from it
Patience that even mountains do transmit

75. Though betrayal quakes and firmness displaces
Aye, but my loyalty to time interlaces

76. If hardship proves my merit in its setting
I've nature of righteousness not quitting

77. When nature's refined in its origin
To perfection it moves though flaws burden

78. Only what it's created for can spend the soul
Not wealth makes its merit extolled

79. Wealth's beliefs come and go
While the soul's belief does not forego

80. When created for something you're praised in deed
Blame otherwise, though they tease and take heed

81. Dangers will test you, so beware
Lest the age's heart despair

82. Sleep not while the age's eyes keep vigil
Feigning sleep, it schemes and plots until

83. Consider the outcomes you dread
Of endings, though beginnings said

84. In yourself instill disdain of hopes that disgrace
Leave hoping, let it reap its abase

85. Choose over humiliation a pride you withstand
Below you its reaching paths expound

86. When the noble rile time, it riles
The arrogant nearly reconcile

87. So let your soul satisfaction have
Vexing time's heart, though in death you meet your grave