1. The water of truth is pure, for it is clear
Of the turbidity in which it was obscure

2. And the turbidity in which it was
Is but predestined steps for it to endure

3. It characterized events, while still
Ancient, not of recent nature

4. A mirage the thirsty thought was water
When he came to it seeking to sip

5. There he found nothing, but in it
He found God the True to be enough

6. I looked at it, witnessed, but if at the soul
I looked, blinded, O straying one

7. Forms He willed to be called things
Without doubt, no difference there

8. And its descriptions are not a description
Of Him, nor with Him, nor of accord

9. Neither of description, nor of nothing, nor of
Anything, for lack of equivalence

10. He is the Truth, Existence, and everything
By Him is nonexistence, set in order

11. So stand and rise to investigate Him
Avoiding the state before loss

12. And with the united be united
To however much you are with the divided

13. And by God, you be strong
And avoid the heedlessness of the weak

14. Else you will regret, my friend
Missing fortune in the age of culture