1. Turn your faces from this city and leave me be
To my passion, my solitude, my madness

2. Return to the safe homeland and depart
From a land, because of the remoteness of its people, unsafe

3. Return to where are slumber and harm
And life amidst doubts and suspicions

4. Where vice is with the honored company
And virtue in the midst of the disgraced

5. Where hospitality for the hoped-for guest
Is as he wishes, even honor, even religion

6. Where commerce is in affection and friendship
And in every view in life that is unblemished

7. Where the protected is the sought ruin
And the chastity of an aged woman is unprotected

8. Where the evildoer against his brother by his grace
Is folding ribs over dew that is sleep-caressed

9. Where the youth like the elder bows his head
And sees reality in conjectured vision

10. Showing worries though no worries, but rather
These are the remnants of hopes and madness

11. That civilization I do not love otherwise
And I see its beauties as the mesh of temptations

12. What has smeared me in testing its people
Of the lies of my hopes and the truth of my eyes