<p class="poetry">It hurls itself against him without pity<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">as he flees headlong from its power.p>

<p class="poetry">If he flees from an iron weapon,p> <p class="poetry">then an arrow<n id="1" /> from a bronze bow pierces him.p>

<t /><p class="poetry">&#8220;My days<n id="1" /> are swifter than a runner,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">they speed by without seeing happiness.p>

<p class="poetry">He grows up<n id="1" /> like a flower and then withers away;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">he flees like a shadow, and does not remain.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">Arrows<n id="1" /> do not make it flee;p> <p class="poetry">slingstones become like chaff to it.p>