1. We stood behind the lines
Gazing upon them through the loopholes

2. And awaited a day like those days
And a night of misfortune like those nights

3. For the rod of fate, when it falls
Directs the course of events to their outcomes

4. And the ropes are set up
So be not fooled by their slipperiness

5. You have climbed their heights throughout the ages
So be patient with the distance of their summits

6. And he who was rained on by the sky of riches
Fell into the torrents of its settlements

7. Oh how the world entices with hope
Yet turns away from them with its kindnesses

8. And its gifts to the youth
Are a guarantee to him of its malice

9. While it says to him, here they are
Until it says to him, hand them over

10. Do you not know that your days
Are counted until their appointed time?

11. How then did you trust its years
When we are stingy with its hours?

12. Do not seek for them to stumble
It will come to them of its own accord

13. The nights pass according to their course
And misfortunes occur according to their habit