1. I saw the branch leaning askew,
And the sand dunes riding away.

2. I thought their difference might hinder them,
Yet they differed not in their going away.

3. So I dismissed my conjectures,
By what I saw, and went away turning back.

4. And no use following after them,
When they had carried off what they had seized.

5. A heart stuffed with passion,
Yet they left me but passion.

6. And a persistent misfortune,
Besets me for losing who went before.

7. As if the noblest two went away,
Not leaving an heir behind.

8. A youth like water, augmenting
Only in softness and clearness.

9. And whose heat doesn't dry up
Except every refined one.

10. You remained for the raider of the sand dunes
To hide all that was uncovered.

11. And you lived for the like of this day
So it would keep its glory.

12. And it returned to you enwrapped
In the garment of good fortune enfolded.

13. So your sufficiency in the sons of this world
Is their praise of you, and that's enough.