30.  Sins are the cause that sorrowing we depart from this world:  no one stands in dread, if he does no evil:  good it is to be blameless.

31.  Like unto wolves all those seem who have a faithless mind:  so he will prove who has to go through ways strewed with gleeds.

32.  Friendly counsels, and wisely composed, seven I have imparted to thee:  consider thou them well, and forget them never:  they are all useful to learn.

33.  Of that I will speak, how happy I was in the world, and secondly, how the sons of men reluctantly become corpses.

34.  Pleasure and pride deceive the sons of men who after money crave; shining riches at last become a sorrow:  many have riches driven to madness.

35.  Steeped in joys I seemed to men; for little did I see before me:  our worldly sojourn has the Lord created in delights abounding.

36.  Bowed down I sat, long I tottered, of life was most desirous; but He prevailed who was all-powerful:  onward are the ways of the doomed.

37.  The cords of Hel were tightly bound round my sides; I would rend them, but they were strong.  ’Tis easy free to go.

38.  I alone knew, how on all sides my pains increased.  The maids of Hel each eve with horror bade me to their home.

39.  The sun I saw, true star of day, sink in its roaring home; but Hel’s grated doors on the other side I heard heavily creaking.

40.  The sun I saw with blood-red beams beset:  (fast was I then from this world declining) mightier she appeared, in many ways, than she was before.

41.  The sun I saw, and it seemed to me as if I saw a glorious god:  I bowed before her, for the last time, in the world of men.

42.  The sun I saw:  she beamed forth so that I seemed nothing to know; but Gioll’s streams roared from the other side mingled much with blood.

43.  The sun I saw, with quivering eyes, appalled and shrinking; for my heart in great measure was dissolved in languor.

44.  The sun I saw seldom sadder; I had then almost from the world declined:  my tongue was as wood become, and all was cold without me.

45.  The sun I saw never after, since that gloomy day; for the mountain-waters closed over me, and I went called from torments.

46.  The star of hope, when I was born, fled from my breast away; high it flew, settled nowhere, so that it might find rest.

47.  Longer than all was that one night, when stiff on my straw I lay; then becomes manifest the divine word:  “Man is the same as earth.”

48.  The Creator God can it estimate and know, (He who made heaven and earth) how forsaken many go hence, although from kindred parted.

49.  Of his works each has the reward:  happy is he who does good.  Of my wealth bereft, to me was destined a bed strewed with sand.

50.  Bodily desires men oftentimes seduce, of them has many a one too much:  water of baths was of all things to me most loathsome.