1. The company of kings is for adornment
Yet many a sly one lies in wait there

2. People in the world live in tranquility
While company of the sultan is like a ship

3. In the sea it shudders constantly in fear
Were it to seek safety from its injustice

4. It would not shudder in its winter or summer
But it shook from the intensity of its fear

5. That it took in from its water into its hold
To ambush it along with its water in its hold