1. Hearken to my words and listen
Take what you see or leave be

2. Make it brief or prolong it after
Ramble in its wake or halt

3. Know you not that fortune
Gives after it denies

4. And striving can tax you
While guessing proves unwise

5. What harm some matters did
A man assumed would benefit

6. If barren years befell
A flank long fertile

7. Patience in me is thin
Tears flow free unfettered

8. However much the days
Trouble me, I'm unterrified

9. When glory rays on me
It reveals a noble youth

10. I don't grieve what's bygone
Nor fret what's denied

11. What's bitter creeps slowly
Stingers rush frenziedly

12. As if tender ages
Never acquainted us

13. For when life's sweet
Its joy we seek

14. When luck looks kindly
When in life we revel happily

15. When strings trill gaily
When cups clink freely

16. When allotted spans run out
Passion's causes plead

17. Some odes bring rapture
Some lyrics give pleasure

18. Reconsider, for the insolent
Have always been laid low

19. Obey not her who seduces
For to their wants she's most obedient

20. Bear it if a suitor comes
A stallion's pride is never dented

21. Be not in their sight, nor hearing
That abode, you cute rogue

22. For when your form's not present
All beds to me seem indifferent