1. I devoted my life to knowledge, and my soul
Had no desire for entertainers or jest.

2. I gathered wealth that went for no delight,
Then losing it brought misery and plight.

3. I raised chicks who went their destined way
As I was carried from couch to deathbed.

4. Of my life I've completed eighty pilgrimages,
And eighty-two years I’ve spent asleep alone.

5. My heart is blackened and so is my night,
Then they brought me a shroud blacker than my woes.

6. So we became three darknesses in the gloom
Upon darkness, and the gloom of the grave follows.

7. Their worldly life brought me no joy,
Yet I hope for lasting bliss in Paradise.