Let God help you, my dear friends,
In toils of life and service strive,
In sweetest secrets of your love,
In feasts among debauching lads!

Let God help you, my dear friends,
In storms and everyday distress,
In dark abysses of the earth,
In desert seas and alien lands!

Translated by Yevgeny Bonver, August 1995,

Edited by Dmitry Karshtedt, July 1996.