1. O you who are heavy upon hearts when they despair of you
They are certain of the length of struggle

2. O speck in the eyes, O covering between
Souls whose affections are daggers in the heart

3. O enemy risings between intimacy
O creditor who came at the appointed time

4. O stagnation on a day of clouds and summer
O faces of merchants on a day of recession

5. Leave us be, for you are only death in us
Or a life like renewed talk

6. Live without God’s company what you have lived
Cast in every rugged valley

7. With you the guide travels the highlands and desert
A blind guide who sleeps a lot

8. Behind you the one determined with the sword
And your feet above the thorns of battle