1. People are followers of the earth, stingy when it withholds
Yet generous when for once it is bountiful

2. The people and hearts boast, reporting
That there is no glory in these generations

3. And kingship belongs to God, and through it the world is fickle
Good and evil, life and death

4. And people are diverse, with no shared goal
Vehemence, peace, blame and life

5. O night of opposites, some stay up late concealed in the darkness
And some sleep through you

6. Help your brother with any good he intends
For the faithful are always ready for good works