1. No life but death cuts it short
Nothing stops it but death prevents it

2. And man in his heedless pleasures
Fate debases and elevates him

3. As he defends against gray hair, dyeing it
While the gray drives him toward death

4. And all life is a new creation
Each has a life it mends

5. And few disasters have occurred without
Terrifying the heart

6. The best of a man's words are the truest
The best of a man's acts are the most useful

7. And death leaves no one remaining
And for every side there is an appointed place of death

8. And all the works of a man
Are harvested and sown by the man

9. Strangely, one with a life who knows certainly
That death is a truth - how does it avail him?