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

You said, “I will go to another place, to another shore.

Another city there must be, better than this.

Another city can be found that’s better than this.

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

All that I struggle for is doomed, condemned to failure;

and my heart—like a corpse—lies buried.

and my heart is like a corpse interred.

How long shall my mind remain smothered in this blight?

How long will my mind stagger under this misery?

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 blackened ruins of my life,

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

which for years on end I squandered and wrecked and ravaged”.

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

You will find no other place, no other shores.

The city shall ever follow you.

This city will possess you, and you’ll wander the same

In streets you shall wander that are the same streets and

streets. In these same neighborhoods you’ll grow old;

grow old in quarters that are the same

in these same houses you’ll turn gray.

and among these very same houses you shall turn grey.

Always you’ll return to this city. Don’t even hope for another.

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

There’s no boat for you, there’s no other way out.

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

In the way you’ve destroyed your life here,

You have so spoiled your life here in this tiny corner

in this little corner, you’ve destroyed it everywhere else.

that you have ruined it in all the world.