1. My mind flees from me, what can I do?
After my mind, I have patience but no rest.

2. It fled all at once, glittering in the hand,
Like glittering moons.

3. My mind was not made to flee,
But it was my restless mind that fled.

4. Where is my perception? Where is my thought?
My senses strayed from me and thoughts went astray.

5. I protected it in the waist-wrapfearfully, coveting it,
But the waist-wrap did not protect it.

6. It slipped out like a glance of the eye,
Wherever the eyes wander.

7. It was fate,
From which there was no escape,