I will now tell you, my alert readers,

A view about man's living condition:

The greatest longevity a man can reach

Is a hundred years plus;

A medium longevity is eighty years or so;

The lowest lifetime is sixty.

Take away sickness, pining, bereavement,

Anxieties and calamities, the times when

In any of these one can gaily laugh

Are only a couple of days in a month.

Heaven and Earth have no limit of duration,

But the death of man has its appointed time.

Take the longest amount of a limited time

And compare it with what is unlimited --

Its brief existence is not different from

The passing of a garden by a green frog.

Those who cannot gratify their will

And natural aims, but nourish

Their appointed longevity,

Are all unacquainted with

The right course of life.