1. Take my hands today from selling in the markets,
So there remains no more turmoil within to trace.

2. For I was not one to grant the youths obedience,
Yet I'd excuse myself amidst the passions without excuse.

3. The ecstasies of youth have passed and gone,
No command or prohibition remains for this companion.

4. Think not that I have abandoned my ramblings
Out of self-discipline, but rather age diminished the thrill.

5. Do not believe that only youth spells riches -
Though money be scarce, old age is true poverty.