Sol 5.6

  1. Indeed, the nights—may they never strike you—are bent on havoc;

    so I have shielded you, in your own person, from Time’s wanton hand.

  2. And I am kept safe by a friend who, despite distance, comes back to my aid,

    out of generosity—so calamitous ordeals are dispelled.

  3. Thus in him I see, for my heart, a second heart,

    a source of strength—and, for my two eyes, a third eye.

Sol 5.6