1. Blessed is He of might and glory
Alone with majesty and eternity

2. He ordained death equally for all
And all are hostage to mortality

3. This world, though we incline to it
Its pleasures last only to destruction

4. Beware complacency in vanities
The road to annihilation leads but to annihilation

5. And one who dwells in it soon departs it
Though the greedy clings to settlement