Sol 6.1

  1. I returned from the circuit empty-handed,

    and in it lay my confidence and pride.

  2. And how often I strove in it with every legal opinion,

    yet my improvising and chanting of rajaz verse availed nothing.

  3. And the chance of relief slipped away from me,

    so it is neither a reality nor a possibility.

  4. And the law of reduction passed my debt by,

    because it is secured by a possessory pledge.

  5. And I had thought I had a privilege under it,

    so the ordeal of rejection was my privilege.

  6. More violent than earthquakes, in my suffering,

    are my turmoil and trembling upon the earth.

  7. And had the courts lifted the burden from me,

    I would now be in the land of the Hijaz.

  8. And I do not fear an army's raids

    against me; my fear is of Ishkenazi.

  9. And I am no Bolshevik in my time,

    nor am I among Fascists and Nazis.

  10. Nor am I among my age's extremists in opinion,

    nor, in my age, am I of that sort.

Sol 6.1