1. I saw the women of this time full of guile,
So I divorced a wasp there three times.

2. And I had no desire for anyone else's anklet bells
Whether many people or just a few.

3. As if her love was an inheritance from my father,
My father's inheritance for me apart from other people.

4. When I saw old age coming humble,
It thus wiped away his years and furnishings.

5. I called in my ropes from his strength and so they became,
His bonds from me and him all worn out.

6. When he saw my affliction had sealed off his love
To transmit poems, he journeyed away swift.

7. When the seal came off from me that I
Sat among people without lineage or inheritance.

8. Alas! O son of the wavering reeds, a man is humbled
Whose helpers in the two worlds are few.

9. Sealed off, make ready and hurry away for only
Distress has come to you coated in succour.