1. Whoever thinks his blessings will fade
Is already suffering for that notion.

2. Dark thoughts may spoil a young man's life,
As well as keeping bad company.

3. So revel in the gifts allotted you here,
Say not, "I fear they'll vanish into thin air!"

4. Defer your worries for another day;
If fate someday should turn and bite us there.

5. Grieving for what has not occurred at all
Is never deemed by the wise man as logical.

6. Regrets can neither bring back the past
Nor remedy melancholy's pathological fall.

7. All worries, when tomorrow comes, retreat,
If that which troubled the lad comes to greet

8. And ask the Lord of the Heavenly Throne
To spare you from fears in hardship's defeat.

9. And cling to Him if darkest night draws nigh,
And calamities approach to terrify.