1. With conversation that distracts you from life's sorrows
Its words, so the night from them is day

2. Turning ears away from hearing his talk
Deaf, so sights hear that

3. And it shakes the branches of the lote-trees as though
It were a cup passed round for wine

4. If one day a complex case puzzles you
Ask him - you will find he has the news

5. Nothing fairer than it reveals its secret
Never and with him secrets stay concealed