1. Since my experiences enlightened me and warned me,
And my knowledge of my fate made me lose a life of ease,

2. It was as if I had been in a dream and was awakened,
My fear denied sleep to my eyelids.

3. I was helpless in the world, having no capable hand
To help me, though helping hands and hands to lean on abound.

4. But I never asked anything of it, to be pampered,
Nor gained from it what I wish and desire.

5. I suffered from the excellent virtues I had acquired
With the least of them the wretched attain happiness and bliss.

6. And if my soul escaped with the shedding of its faults,
There would be in it hesitation and relapse.

7. O Lord, inspire it with guidance through abandoning them!
For you guide whom you will, and you point the way.