1. Who lives grows old, who grows old dies
And death cares not whence she applies

2. How many like us have trod this path
Of generations gone before!

3. Deluded soul, what youth is this?
Had you but turned from it, you'd desist

4. Forgetting death in your ignorance
You let your soul to it digress

5. We're in an abode of woe and bane
Of misery, sorrow and pain

6. Where man finds no lasting peace
Save fleetingly, should he find release

7. While man hustles through this life
In haste, his steps are light

8. But life keeps its tenants in decay
However they plead and pray

9. Life is but a joy of brief span
However you try to cling to its caravan

10. God bless the man who is just to himself
When he speaks good or simply holds his peace