1. Patience for the vicissitudes of time
Though the heart refuses and the mind

2. For many a smiling face bears wounds
Whose pain the surface never shows

3. The youth persists relentlessly
While death's hand for him waits in the wings

4. How many a hopeful sets out
Towards distant hopes that never come true

5. While a tomb is built for him
In which his shroud will soon be stitched

6. Despair not that old friends
Will return and the winds shift again

7. The old branch may break and fall
But the young shoot rises fresh and green

8. The clouds will part to reveal
Blue skies and fresh, open spaces

9. For everything there is an end
Either beautiful or ugly