1. Take in your youth the finest living has to offer,
For the harbinger of gray hair comes to warn you.

2. Receive your share of joy before parting comes,
So that no trace or story remains thereafter.

3. What remains of one's youth soon disappears,
As if it were a night of union about to end.

4. Know its rights and hold fast to it tightly,
For purity comes next and then bitterness.