1. Your wealth is no treasure or property to me,
So keep your worldly goods - my hopes are all I need.

2. I have no misery, no joy in bounty or state -
In my heart is neither pride of riches nor plight.

3. My world that is part of the wider world
Is richer than soil, higher than wealth's height.

4. I gave people their worldly desires from it -
It has for me no bounty or fortune bright.

5. So let them leave my dreams that I have spun,
My state of distress, if it does not delight.

6. I gave them my pleasures and went silent -
Not fed on delicacies nor broke fast overnight.

7. I sang no riches, wanted no more, no less -
My world in its plenty and dearth kept me right.

8. I lived blessed in my nothingness, pleased that
I was lightened of my burdens and their weight.

9. I never probed the essence of those people,
To me they are neither kith nor kin outright.

10. I shunned the vanity of my days, and it rendered
Me aloof from the guiles that visibility excites.