1. The sweet life has declined and state lowered,
Worries resolved and sorrow manifest.

2. An event shocked me and covered me in grief,
And misfortunes come rushing in waves.

3. Time has betrayed those I trusted,
Some are scattered, some passed away.

4. It bit me with its fangs,
While time harms those who bite.

5. Death hurried among them,
And the steeds of demise raced.

6. The nights took back their loans
And life itself is but a loan.

7. It broke pacts with them
None feared their dissolution.

8. Circles of glory they possessed
Beyond the heavens' mansions is the earth.

9. How many branches in the soil from them
Have the hands of death picked while still green.

10. As if each man had upon him
Their provisions as arrows that determine.

11. They lived the life of the glorious,
And saw through them lowness in the cycles.

12. Misfortunes are warded from them by them,
To which ears are deaf.

13. They left behind glory and honor
Pure, and the glory of the noble is pure.

14. No abode ever contained their wealth,
Nor was their honor brought low.

15. They perished so realms perished by them
And open-handedness and closed-fistedness died with them.

16. Patience, but when we lose
The likes of them, is a duty and obligation.