1. Is wisdom only for the generous servant
Whose excellence encompasses the new and old?

2. When lightning flashes in his palm
He pours the water of bliss on the face.

3. Ignorant of swords, yet he
Goes and returns with the hands of the forbearing.

4. So much blood has he spilled with it
And so many wounds has he revealed with it,

5. As if his pots had hatched
Green-bodied birds with long beaks.

6. His travel has an ease, its easiness
Passing over the face like a gentle breeze.

7. If his ugliness were icier
He would return from beauty pure silk.

8. We have enjoyed serving him since we grew up
So we are with him in lasting bliss.

9. And how much we have settled with others
So we were with them in painful torment.