1. O stubborn, hapless child of life
You have surely strayed far astray

2. Do you wish for the gentle voice of life
While you are a prisoner in this existence?

3. You seek the rose of dawn
Plucked from the palm of a barren field

4. If you wish for the gentleness of life
Behind the darkness of misery, there is nothing you desire

5. To death, O son of the miserable life
For in death is the gentle voice of life

6. To death, if time has tormented you
For in death is the merciful heart of time

7. To death, for death is a beautiful soul
That flutters above those clouds

8. A soul in the radiant dawn of eternity
And what surrounds it of the stars

9. To death, for death is a filling cup
For one whom the desert's poisons have parched

10. And you will not be sated if you thirst
From the sweet spring before death

11. For what are tears but the drink of time
And what is grief but the food of life

12. To death, for death is a soft, plentiful bed
In which all creatures sleep

13. To death, if adversities have besieged you
And blocked from you the path of peace

14. For in the world of death, life dawns
Free of the garb of sorrow and the mask of darkness

15. And appears as it was created, fresh
With a smile pouring across its face

16. The shadows of eternity fall upon it
And people's hearts flutter over it

17. To death, fear not its depths
For in them is the gentle light of heaven

18. And in them, heaven's virgins gather
Naked, singing a wonderful melody

19. And in their dancing, the palm branches
They stir them in ample space

20. Lighting with it the smiles of hearts
And with it the regrets of tears vanish

21. It is death, the beautiful specter of eternity
And half of life that does not lament

22. There, behind distant space
Lives the strong, vigilant deceased

23. He gathers hearts to his chest
To lament what they have suffered of wounds

24. And inspires in them the spring of life
And delights them with the joyous morn