1. They said departure is tomorrow, so we saw tomorrow
It made us yearn intensely and the scene was heartrending

2. Say, how can one who suffers not from inflicting pain
Feel sympathy for one suffering from an enemy’s blows

3. He remembered longing, and wept for it bitterly
Until the robe-spreader wept with him, grieved

4. Woe to him from a memory whose sum
Scattered the sum of his tears so they dispersed

5. And his students, when misguided, cannot attain
O distant are misguidance and guidance!