1. Our Ancient Creator's judgment, and how many
A man of generous nature and straitened means

2. So lighten your sorrows, though misfortunes never cease
To marshal armies against the throne, yet who prevails

3. If one hour they resort unto evil,
They avail no wick, they build no wall

4. Is this your way, O Fate, ever-flowing?
And death comes after all has gone awry

5. Curse a darkness that brings guidance
When dawn's first light has pierced the gloom