1. For every matter whose fate has run its course, there is a cause,
And time itself, in its unfolding, is wondrous.

2. People are but companions of the world and her friend;
How then, when she is overturned one day, are they not overturned?

3. They esteem the brother of this world though he revolt
Against them with that which they do not desire, yet they revolt not.

4. They do not milk a gallant stallion until
His choicest milk is that which they have milked.