Translation:I Have Walked Many Paths

I have walked many paths, I have entered many lanes; I have traveled a hundred seas, and anchored at a hundred shores. I have seen in every corner caravans of sadness, proud and melancholic, drunk off the dark shade, and the fashionable know-it-alls who watch, and hush, and think they know, because they do not drink their wine in taverns. Awful people who walk about and go stinking up the earth... And in every corner I have seen people dancing or playing, when they can, and laboring their square of earth. Never do they ask, upon arriving, where they have arrived. When they travel, they ride on the back of an old mule, and they know nothing of haste even on the festive days. Where there is wine, they drink wine; where there is no wine, fresh water. They are good people who live, labor, pass by and sleep, and on a day like many others, rest below the earth.