Christian Rosencreutz.

...to my ears, they sang more sweetly than ever before. The young little deer original: "Hirschlin" leaped so joyfully there that they gladdened my old heart and moved me to sing. Therefore, I also began to sing with a loud voice as follows:

Rejoice, you dear little bird,
To praise your Creator on high:
Lift up your voice now clear and fine,
Your God is highly exalted.
Your food original: "Speiß" He has prepared for you,
And gives it at the right and proper time;
Let yourself be content with that.

Why would you be unhappy?
Why would you be angry with God,
That He wanted you to be a little bird?
Would you trouble your little head original: "Köpfflin"
That He did not make you a human?
Oh hush, He has thought it through better;
Let yourself be content with that.

What am I, a poor earthworm A common metaphor in 17th-century piety for human humility before the Divine.,
That I would want to argue with God?
That I would try to storm heaven the act of trying to reach divine secrets through pride or force rather than humility original: "Himmelsturm",
To seize great art by force?
God will not allow Himself to be boasted against;
Whoever is not worthy here, let him depart.
Oh human, let yourself be content.

That He did not make you an Emperor original: "Keyser",
Do not let that grieve you;
Perhaps you would have despised His name,
For this He had His reasons.
The eyes of God are brighter [than ours];
He looks right into your heart.