Those who dream of the pleasures of drinking

May in the morning wail and weep;

Those who dream of wailing and weeping

May in the morning be going out

To mark a pleasant occasion indeed.

When they are dreaming they do not know

It is a dream; in their dream they may

Even have tried to interpret it; but when

They awake they know that it is just a dream.

And there is the great awaking after which

We shall know that this life is a great dream.

All the while, the stupid think they are awake

And with nice discrimination stubbornly insist

On their knowing, now playing a part of kings,

And now a part of menservants. Meanwhile,

We all are dreaming, and one who tries to say

That we are dreaming is dreaming oneself.

These words seem very strange even to me,

But if, let's say in another ten thousand years,

How to explain them, it will be as if we meet him

Some morning or evening of the present days.