1. Every year my birthday passes me by
A day I know yet a day I forget its timing

2. It passes me and I notice the absent wanderer
And feel the state of others born in its timing

3. I shudder and relax, it makes no difference, an ordinary day
It detracts a year from my life at dawn of its celebration

4. I compose words, some crying, some cheerful
And send with each teardrop a trill of joy

5. O clouds of rain, luck was generous to it
My life flourishes by its call and thrives at its hands

6. O you who rides the days, with you life surrenders
How many nights it lulled me into sighing

7. And o journey of life between wakefulness and sleep
And o trembling of eyelids in its slumber and rest

8. In a life's moment passions race through valleys
A moment and passion, the rest of life its echo

9. The passed moment will not return
And the life to come, with the unseen, awaits its ruin

10. Three days for men, o Guide
Two days for this world, and a day for resurrection and eternity