1. The intoxication of youth is madness
And people are above and below

2. And things appear to us
As guesses and assumptions

3. And time has its ups and downs
As the branches bend down

4. Of minds there are plains
Known and sad

5. In them is ripe and obedient fruit
And from them bitter dry dates

6. If those I love betray me
I am not treacherous

7. I do not suspect
Except when suspicion is justified

8. Oh you who lingered awhile
Your lingering has been too long

9. You made light of the tyranny of nights
You made light of what cannot be made light

10. Oh I wish I knew, when
You are buried, how you will be

11. If you were left slain
And eyes had wept for you

12. Tears shedding for you would have stopped
Songs about you, flowing

13. Do not feel secure from nights
For all of them are betrayers

14. Graves are prisons
None like them are prisons

15. So many centuries
Of those past and centuries

16. In graves there is no face
Safe from dust

17. We will all perish
Though we dislike death

18. As for souls, over them
Deaths have debts

19. Death cannot be avoided by one
Fortresses have besieged fortresses

20. Death has no rest
From us while we have rest