1. If kingdoms are destined for you,
Think how you will move on.

2. For if days allowed it,
Lifetimes would not.

3. You will have to relinquish it
As the first ones gave it to you.

4. So do not be fooled by compromise
Or hopes and dreams.

5. For if you find hope,
You will find more hope after it.

6. What satisfies you of the world now
Is no family or spring.

7. And whatever you gathered
Will remain when you move on.

8. Beyond this you will have of it
Only sin and lapse.

9. And the grip of the seizer of souls
Allows no delay.

10. I wonder at one heedless and neglectful
Of his life's frailty,

11. And death's army seeking him
While paths narrow around him.

12. There is no doubt in his fate
And he knows not when it will arrive.

13. The reckless and the valiant
Are equal before violence and courage.