1. How long to how long are you a slave
To hope and desire, ceaseless your toil

2. Striving and seeking help not at all
If Providence's design you defy

3. What God decrees none can deny
By ill-fortune some are beset

4. By good fortune some are blessed
Mortals are ruled by the flow

5. Of these two, before and after all
Trust not in Fate, for Fate betrays

6. Those who on passing days rely
In multitudes they were misled

7. Scattered, wasted, now they lie
This world, do not be fooled

8. By its ebb, its flow, its tide