Night for day, they appoint, Light, is near, by reason of darkness!

Failed me, have my near of kin, and, mine intimate acquaintances, have forgotten me;

The number of my footsteps, I would declare to him, Like a noble, would I draw near to him.

So doth his soul draw near to the pit, and his life to the inflicters of death:

If there hath been near him a messenger who could interpret - one of a thousand, to declare to the son of earth His uprightness,