1. O rider of folly, not guided aright
How vast the difference 'twixt misguidance and right

2. Suffice you what you have done, misled
So seek God's forgiveness, then sin no more

3. O you whose increase is but decrease!
If you but lessen not, you shall not increase

4. I wonder at one hopeful, his warner Death
Yet heeds not, nor strives as he ought

5. How swift are night and day with moments brief
That come upon hopes however long drawn

6. Old age shall surely beset us with what
Befell those before on the aged earth

7. O Death, O Death, how many a trusted friend
Has charged me, closing his eyes by my hand

8. O Death, O Death, how much have you added
To paucity of wealth and of heart grieved

9. O Death, O Death, how many a wounded heart
Bleeds and how many a liver pained by your sting

10. O Death, O Death, the sun rose upon us by you
And stars of Leo set 'neath your embrace

11. O Death, O Death, I see none in creation
You spare, leaving on earth anyone

12. Praise be to God, for ever and aye
The rightly guided may miss the right way

13. Whoso seeks light, is lit up by its glow
Whoso longs for God, shall find and shall know