Translation

I know, dear Lord, the audacity

of writing of Thee with the unworthy pen,

but Thy greatness is so benevolent

that it asks for human will, not knowledge alone.

 

This will, for you, is the harmony

which is most pleasing to Thee,

for there is no music so strange and beautiful

as the poem which guides our thoughts to Thee

 

Be Thou the only focus of my music,

and let thy criticisms show

my wit, my speech and my nerve,

 

because if the simple and pure will 

pleases the Greatest Sovereignty,

how glorious, Lord, what bliss!