1. Indeed, devotion and all its fellowship—

    if that company passes you by, there is no rest.

  2. And if some wayward soul knocks at your door,

    bolt it more firmly, and do not open.

  3. Your brother is a man before whom a friend

    feels shy; his flaw is that he himself is shy.

  4. I have seen a young man's branch stripped of bark,

    and he perishes before ever growing a beard.

  5. Whatever a hand writes for Time

    is, by Time's own hand, erased in turn.

  6. How many a living man has embarked upon an errand,

    only for advancing fate to overtake him—

  7. just as the great well-bucket, filled with water,

    is left in the well, never drawn up.

Sol 5.6