Sol 5.6

  1. He keeps vigil while the days are anything but asleep;

    for he has eyes fixed upon the eye of Time.

  2. In every depth of his age’s perplexities,

    he has a watchpost and an ambush laid by his judgment.

  3. In every matter his affairs demand,

    he shows himself as need requires—or remains concealed.

  4. The deeds of his judgment outstrip the deeds of earnest endeavor,

    and so decide what has been and what will be.

  5. You see him with lowered gaze, yet ever watchful;

    Time trembles before him, though he is stillness itself.

  6. His vision pierces the matter’s disguising garb,

    and grasps its very essence while remaining guarded.

  7. An innate soundness of judgment reveals to him the manifest truth

    in things that scarcely admit of being made clear.

  8. Judgment and wisdom reach him before deliberation

    when affairs become entangled with him amid his concerns.

  9. Minds can only speculate in trying to fathom his judgment,

    and their conclusions about what lies hidden are mere conjectures.

  10. In evident outward force, resolve and judgment are his army,

    launching raids on his behalf while he remains at home.

  11. It is as though the surging chaos of Time around his resolve were

    doubts among which certainty shines forth.

Sol 5.6