You said: "I shall go to some other land, I shall go to some other sea.

You said: “I’ll go to another country, go to another shore,

Another city there must be, better than this.

find another city better than this one.

My every effort here is a sentence of condemnation against me,

Whatever I try to do is fated to turn out wrong

and my heart—like a corpse—lies buried.

and my heart lies buried like something dead.

How long shall my mind remain smothered in this blight?

How long can I let my mind moulder in this place?

Wherever I turn my eye, wherever I look,

Wherever I turn, wherever I look,

I see the black ruins of my life

I see the black ruins of my life, here,

where I spent and spoiled and ruined so many years."

where I’ve spent so many years, wasted them, destroyed them totally.”

Fresh lands you shall not find, you shall not find other seas.

You won’t find a new country, won’t find another shore.

The city shall ever follow you.

This city will always pursue you.

In streets you shall wander that are the same streets and

You’ll walk the same streets, grow old

grow old in quarters that are the same

in the same neighborhoods, turn gray in these same houses.

and among these very same houses you shall turn grey.

You’ll always end up in this city. Don’t hope for things elsewhere:

You shall always be returning to the city. Hope not;

there’s no ship for you, there’s no road.

there is no ship to take you to other lands, there is no road.

Now that you’ve wasted your life here, in this small corner,

You have so spoiled your life here in this tiny corner

you’ve destroyed it everywhere in the world.

that you have ruined it in all the world.