1. O dawn of ill omens that no matter how it seems
The means of success have despaired of its causes

2. O pausing of the mourner for the death of one
That revived in the entrails the heat of his affliction

3. O blossoming of pain that no matter how much it is seen
The feet of death came in its aftermath

4. O parting of dwelling that does not shudder
The soul on the day of farewell, the day of its return

5. O dyeing of hoary hair that blamed
Its doves drove away the crows of its youth

6. O position of severe poverty over wealth
From one of misery that entices destinations with its stirrups

7. O stopping of students at the door of a lord
Their sword belts are humiliated at his doorkeeper

8. O shame from one who breaks wind in a gathering
Its embarrassment remains after it

9. And the disgrace of the deceitful when
The causes of one who seeks it are found under his clothes

10. O one whom his time complained of his shame
O one whom his world blamed for his fault

11. O one whom time chokes with regret
For his palm and sees him battering his fangs

12. And whose eyelids crease from intense shame
At the evil of what came to him and he brought

13. O one who beautified himself with the forbidden, indeed
The worth of a young man is what was under his turban

14. Why did you not remember how a virtue is
That if virtuous does not harm the color of its jugular vein