1. Where can one flee from fate
East or west bound

2. See if you can find a course
Or refuge or escape

3. Surrender to God's will
Be content with it

4. And wait attentively
Seldom will you be free

5. From events that come to pass
Thus time with people alternates

6. Going to and fro
Increasing are the fears

7. Of death the more one flees
For old age has weakened you

8. And turned your hair grey
Youth left in vanity’s sway

9. And old age tutors to obey
What you have tried suffices

10. A man's trial tells his way
Seeking the world one wearies

11. Frustrated night and day
Building ruin, though intended