1. How strange is one with sight
Who feels safe from this world though he sees it

2. Indeed, man has a day that fells him
One ought to beware it

3. How many generations came to us, now passed
And after them we forgot their gathering

4. Forms that were people like us
Then He who shaped them made them perish

5. In God's cause we were not heedless
Yet we feel safe from the world and its betrayal

6. The world is but a vanishing shadow
I praise God who ordained it thus