He who lives in despair / takes and gives in vain.

even if you do the best you can in all things, your human nature must often fall short; so entrust yourself to God's goodness, for his goodness is greater than your failures.

Despair makes us serve evil as much as good.

I wish to devote all my time / To noble thoughts about great Love.

They who live without Love are dead. / But the worst of all deaths is this -- / That the loving soul be cowardly toward Love; / For perfect Love is never cowardly, / But claims its rights, which it lacks.

Although the season is joyful everywhere, / And mountain and valley are all verdant, / That would seem a truly small matter to him / Who has met mischance in love.

The new year has begun for us. / Now must God grant us with love / That we may be able so to begin it / That it may be of value for Love.