1. The lowly find honor in this world
While nobility's glory brings it down

2. Like pearls that sink to the sea's floor
While corpses float upon its crown

3. So bear with fate's awful strokes herein
With a heart raised by ancestors' renown

4. No refuge's found after misfortune
With grief, not urged by passion's heat

5. A friend's will guides his steed aright
No slowness feared, no haste unmeet

6. A foe turns away with pitying look
Gloomy and sullen his retreat

7. So seldom carve injustice on anyone
Lest vengeance come your wrongs to meet