1. You charged me with a task—were even its least part

    laid upon Mount Thahlan, it would nearly sway:

  2. to restore the past and perpetuate the present state,

    and attain what is to come—surely this is arduous.

  3. I have ranged through past, future, and present,

    as though I were a verb from which fixity had fled.

  4. And the likeness stayed with me until there gathered

    impediments to declension, from which there is no escape.

  5. Would that my departure replaced my ranging,

    so this ranging would lessen from me, while that departure increased.

Sol 5.6