1. I sought a companion to find rest in rest
When rest robbed much reason from the mind

2. To share in its secret and in its delight
So he may dictate, write or recite

3. And drink it in manner, place and time
And know it in genre, type and paradigm

4. But when deprivation insisted on dissent
And a peer matching me in merit was lent

5. I communed with it alone as our master said
For I found none other who was like me instead