1. I recalled, so the tears flowed,
Though no tragic event made me sad.

2. I remembered the cheeks and days of innocence,
When a sleepless dark-eyed one charmed me.

3. I found my friends had scattered,
Some had left without bidding farewell.

4. My soul lamented for a companion
Of noble nature, never deceitful.

5. Death, the ender of youth’s joy, took him
And there was no refuge from his death.

6. My heart grieving, I went to his grave
To ask about the one laid to rest there.

7. I surrendered when I touched the slab
And called, “Where is that ideal youth?”

8. “Is he really buried amidst these sands?
Has he become a resident of this grave?”

9. After luxury, he pillowed his head on the ground,
Though once he could not rest on fine linen.

10. The answer was the silence of tombs,
And my answer was tears.

11. The grave reminds me of the cheeks of innocence,
Making my amorous heart complain.

12. Never can I forget the day of our bereavement,
When the youths lost one whose death agonized.

13. Youth circled his bier,
Each one grieving and pained.

14. Some shed tears in sympathy,
While others had eyes that welled up.

15. They hovered around you as death drew near
And hacked at your ribs mercilessly.

16. Your friends and kin tried to ransom you,
But death will not be driven away.

17. The pangs of death contorted your smiling lips
As death attacked and would not be deterred.

18. The struggle was fierce and the havoc great,
The deadly blow would not be deflected.

19. Death sank its claws into your breast
And its claws were the means of your death.

20. You died nobly, as all men will do,
For their final garment is the shroud.

21. This existence is but the graves of mankind,
No place remains devoid of burial mounds.

22. The first died and we will join them,
One slowly and another hurriedly.

23. We will perish and leave none after us
Save memory, and memory can be of use.

24. Some died the death of commoners,
With no famous tale to be heard.

25. While others live on through their fame,
So their memory is like musk - it lingers.

26. Man can live forever through memories,
And yours is like the rising sun.