1. I wandered alone among the palaces for a long time
Asking passersby where is happiness?

2. Yet the allure of palaces is but a thin veil
Behind it lurks sorrow and gloom

3. In palaces I found only lost hearts
And a grieving world

4. Just people to whom days are narrow like
The wretched and hungry

5. Wealth does not save them from melancholia's hand
Nor does pride save them

6. Death does not pardon them, they are sad, silent and crying
How many huts behind the palaces

7. Weep and complain of the cruelty of fate
How many hearts wish to trade the palace

8. For a hut by the bank of a stream
Even if they escaped hunger and poverty

9. And deprivation did not prey on them
They have long felt the hunger of the soul

10. And sorrow has enslaved them
Even if they spend their days amidst

11. Colorful, beautiful silk
Tomorrow centuries will pass while they are

12. Dead on thorns, pebbles and dust
If their palaces have lamps that turn

13. Darkness into light
Tomorrow the light will fade and remain

14. The darkness of night morning and evening
Palaces cannot save one from the blindness of sorrow

15. When it haunts hearts
How many wealthy spend their lives miserable

16. Drowning in their moaning and crying
All the riches in this existence

17. Cannot relieve misery
All those treasures have never

18. Immersed a wealthy man in bliss
Oh my path, night has filled me, palaces no longer

19. Appeal to my eyes
I found no glimpse of happiness in them

20. I found nothing but the shadow of despair and sadness