1. In this youth and prime of life,
Let none blame him who weeps in sorrow.

2. Great grief for you fills me, until
I see even the earth bend with compassion.

3. O extinguished flame, O closed eyes,
Decay took them and acted wickedly.

4. You were not on either side, yet
You knew not what was lawful and unlawful.

5. But it is a mysterious secret of God,
Beyond what is suspected and understood.

6. A secret that makes people doubt,
Until life's veils are lifted and all is revealed.

7. There we will know what evident truth
Gave life to souls, though tyrants condemned.

8. And we will see, from how things are directed,
What gathered dust as stars, and what returned as soil.

9. Is there in the sorrows of this world,
Anything you would have preferred, had you remained?

10. Go, you went well, find eternal,
Tranquil bliss and bounty there.