1. The house expelled me, time with my eyes,
So I overpowered it and entered it in my thoughts.

2. Separation displayed its goods therein but I did not
Abandon what I surveyed with my conscience.

3. How wondrous yesterday he visited
As their neighbor and today he is my visitor!

4. Do not thank this life for the first
State of it, for judgment lies with the last.

5. And the two, profit and loss, how often
Have they departed, so that the profit resembles loss!

6. Do not persist in fortifying what will contain
That which dies, for it cannot endure.