1. Settle the contention, you are a tract whose length
Is without smoothness or teeth

2. How many wounds from this epic did pierce you
Reached you without a piercing weapon

3. For the soul and body, both garments
Remain at war without safety

4. Two opposites will never agree to peace
Will two opposites ever concur?

5. O maker of peace between disputants, take care
To reconcile them, perhaps they will be on good terms

6. For Jesus has completed for us in his Gospel
What he brought of the truth and proof

7. Blessed are the makers of peace, they
Are of my assured protection and gardens

8. So beware of them both as long as you live
For they are water and fire that never meet

9. I have remained confused between them
They do not cease to violently pull me

10. So I am like Jacob amidst the wiles
And affection of Laban's two daughters