1. He prepared for life with ease and ostentation
Yet it was but a call to toil and tribulation

2. A man desires his state be never changed
But days insist it only be rearranged

3. I'm stunned by one whose life is but a tent
Pitched by a flooding stream, unstable and rent

4. Adorn yourself while free, ere comes your end
Roam whilst the realm of possibilities extend

5. Indulge no lusts, assumptions leave unknown
Lest certitude be lost, and peace o'erthrown

6. Mankind comprises but the good and bad
And many a sinner's ways saw reform glad

7. If you would honor self, play guardian true
From disrepute defend it, and virtues pursue

8. Is not the soul that's cheaply held by man
More lightly weighed by all his fellow clan?