1. The pillar of the house builds affectionately
Towards his house though far apart her tracks may be

2. My needs will be met by another though I strive not
Among the needy, a rider racing eagerly

3. He passes by two pools though no monks ground his flour
A gurgling full, then one dried up completely

4. Though but garbage lies between us, yet to him I’ll go
A humpbacked house wherein the crevices yawn widely

5. Truly, if the monk reproaches me tomorrow
I have blamed him with blame that shall remain and feed me

6. O two friends of the monk, if ye should meet him
I have molded - who indeed is like thee to mold me?

7. For the hundred thou lent a kinsman, at every door
Thine eyes rain tears that flow plentifully

8. Thy streaming tears blame me, yet thou art a man
Bald of noble stock, ignoble in degree

9. Besides thee, though we are comrades, hast thou not been
Radiant since first thou camest forth from thy abode?

10. Thou callest and prayest unto God as though some child
Of a base mother had not ceased his crying loudly

11. When comes my messenger, he sleeps not at the warning
Nay, but he fears the night-comers, startled fitfully

12. What man, when warned, has seen my vanguard and not had
Sleep frightened from his eyes however heavily?

13. Save the witless, none shares with him in his weakness
Whilst yet a babe, his mother and he successively

14. So fling him not into the viper's fang straightway
Each Eve's rod in it is steeped most plenteously

15. The tribe's leaders shun and come not nigh unto him
Scared witlings who the dark night sets trembling fitfully

16. Deaf he is: if treated for it, only dies therefrom
Or recovers: dead in sooth is his mind utterly