1. Nothing prevents the servant from his purpose
Except the muddy, rutted roads.

2. It is as though your destination were cut off -
No path leads to your goal.

3. And all who come here see
In times of bounty only barrenness.

4. Since entering it, we have found
Regret instead of profit.

5. The most difficult thing we meet of its people
Is words without people or plains.

6. I loved it, but I have found in it
Everything that pains me.

7. And you are one whose kindness
Has become the adornment of this futile age.