1. Under the soil will be those above the soil
And every new thing will end in decay

2. The youth passes like the old man in his death
And the old man passes just as the youth passes

3. We thought that life was the wakefulness of an awakened one
Yet it is a dream that appears in the tombs

4. A day and a night both pass away
And people between them pass as you see

5. Under the pebbles are many whom our land has folded
Their number almost exceeds the number of pebbles

6. If the dead rose from their resting places
No place would remain for us to stand with them

7. We build and plant in our homes for dwellers
After them and so did those past

8. How good would our house be had it not been
That its builder dies and what he built decays

9. Best is the youth who died causing grief while not
Lamenters died over his youth and crying

10. He left and remained a grief for his parting
Almost melting the fat of kidneys in its sea

11. Grieving over that youth, for it is
A full moon after perfection that disappeared

12. He left and it was as if in the earth he
Was not born, but lived a heavenly birth

13. And death does not neglect among people
A child or old man creeping on a stick

14. Each is like his companion dying, except
Far between are shroud and soil

15. This for which people were created
And for that our home is called home of extinction

16. People are dead in life, for what
Must come is counted as it came

17. Who missed the evil of morn, no doubt
Will not miss the evil of eve

18. Maddest when we reflect, is
Short life diving into the deep of demise

19. And of the jests is that you say consoling
For one who dies to his family, "To you is eternity."