They rejoice over the death of friends, since those friends have gained the greatest of blessings; they rejoice also at the birth of children, since those who are born will one day gain the bliss of death.
For a couple to fall in love is the signal for mutual self-surrender.
Each insists on giving up the loved one; and the more passionate the love is, the more eager is the desire to have the loved one married to someone else.

Lovers have died broken-hearted from being compelled to marry one another.

Poets here among the Kosekin celebrate unhappy love which has met with this end.

These poets also celebrate defeats instead of victories, since it is considered glorious for one nation to sacrifice itself to another; but to this there are important limitations, as we shall see.

Poets also celebrate street-sweepers, scavengers, lamp-lighters, laborers, and above all, paupers, and pass by as unworthy of notice the authors, Meleks, and Kohens of the land.
The paupers here form the most honorable class.