1. Alas! I have a day when I will be judged as I have judged
My record will tally what I did right and wrong

2. By Him I hope for pardon, He knows
What I have concealed and what I have made known

3. It is sorrow enough that I do good yet decay
Makes ugly what I have adorned and made fair

4. More wondrous still, desires entice me
And I am certain of that which I have made certain

5. I climbed aspiring and aimed at wishes
And stirred in myself hopes towards them and calmed them

6. And how often my ambitions called me and I responded
And how often my ambitions soiled me and I was soiled

7. A man's company seems to me a trust
So if I betray a man, it is myself whom I betray

8. And I have an hour, of that there is no doubt, it is imminent
As if I will already have been embalmed and shrouded in it

9. Do you not see that the earth is a place of temporary lodging
However long I last and take up residence in it?

10. I am hostage to misfortunes, transferred about
Waiting for the cup of departure wherever I may be