1. O ties of kinship, your father is hostage to mortality
Written, which he must inevitably meet,

2. Its episodes were concluded by the souls of those passed,
Just as what remains will be followed by the rest.

3. Time is about to disperse its doubts,
With death or travel whose shelter is folded.

4. Inevitably between you two, you will hear an invocation,
Or respond to an invocation you are called to.