1. My fate did not please me as I pleased it,
But it turned away harshly with what followed.

2. It fed on my blood,
While fate feeds on its sons.

3. A fate which bends the pine tree
Like the scarcity of true friends within it.

4. Oh soul, time has wronged me,
So be patient and wander.

5. And bear with its ignorance
The forbearance of the wise over the fool.

6. If it were free, it would not have tyrannized
One day over a free and noble man.