1. O you whose sightless eyes see not
How can you deny the lamps' bright glow?

2. You've led mankind to past and future woe
With tyranny, save what the dawn might show

3. O setter of the traps of sin unlawful
To catch with nets of evil mesh and row

4. If you reached up to grasp the whale of heaven
It would escape your grip, no life would flow

5. Yet you claim the falcon's noble line
How much worse if you were of tyrants born!