1. My breast is straitened by what I bear and naught
Straitens it save the straitening of the breasts

2. I loaded them with my affairs but when
They burdened them, I unloaded them of my affairs

3. And I withdrew from the living, hoping for death
Or kindness from the Kind One, the Experienced

4. So perhaps the graves may be dewed when
The dew is upon its people in the graves

5. Then when that was habitual from me
In succession of its days and months

6. He came whom the speech hears not if you should say
When the excuse arose with the apologies

7. He said between me and you is the judgment or be
Generous, this judge and the son of gladness

8. That one judges against you or that one judges
For you so choose and plunge into my choosing

9. And he saw the aspect of his money that with
You when you were with him, easy