1. Endure the bitter events of fate
You will then praise the rewards of patience

2. And pave the way for yourself before your death
And store for the day of reckoning

3. It is as though your family bid you farewell but
You did not hear while you lie resting on the tree

4. It is as though they have embalmed you with what
The doomed take as perfume

5. It is as though they tossed you atop
The bier into the darkness of the grave

6. Oh how I wish I knew how you fare atop
The bier while being unaware

7. Oh how I wish I knew how you will be when
Bathed with camphor and myrtle

8. Oh how I wish I knew how you will be when
The reckoning is placed that morn

9. What excuse have I in what I did and what
Can I say to my Lord; what defence have I?

10. That I did not seek righteousness or
Embrace what I had ignored of my affair

11. Oh what ill I have earned and
Oh my remorse for what of my life has passed