1. The earth is vast, yes, but they
Have owned its plants and mines over us

2. And time passes, its rule over its people
So time is their judge, though our adversary

3. If I were not wronged in merit, no,
And merit refused me, I was wronged

4. The people's hearts testified in their eyes
That the one above us, not beneath us

5. Goodness may testify I'm good
To people, affection has flowed between us

6. And I accompanied him my life with one trait
I shepherd the wrongdoer, though called good

7. If he said time betrayed me, and didn't gain
For his time, by your life, anything gained

8. If he said time betrayed me, then himself
Had from it, for him, more faithless and hostile

9. A predecessor living by our memory, so it's as if,
Afterward, if he dwelled in dust, he sprang from us

10. And the villainy of all people is the praise of their effort
Their building what the first of them didn't build

11. And indeed I was silent about time and what transpired
A day, and no reproach flows between us

12. It passes, and I never blamed a faithless night
Of it, nor praised a faithful day