<p class="poetry">My kinsmen have failed me;p> <p class="poetry">my friends<n id="1" /> have forgotten me.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">There<n id="1" /> the wicked<n id="2" /> cease<n id="3" /> from turmoil,<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">and there the weary<n id="5" /> are at rest.p>

<p class="poetry">Look away from him and let him desist,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">until he fulfills<n id="2" /> his time like a hired man.p>

<p class="poetry">I loathe<n id="1" /> it;<n id="2" /> I do not want to live forever;p> <p class="poetry">leave me alone,<n id="3" /> for my days are a vapor!<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">Are not my days few?<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Cease,<n id="2" /> then, and leave<n id="3" /> me alone,<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">that I may find a little comfort,<n id="5" />p>

<t /><p class="poetry">&#8220;But there is hope for<n id="1" /> a tree:<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">If it is cut down, it will sprout again,p> <p class="poetry">and its new shoots will not fail.p>

<t /><p class="poetry">&#8220;But<n id="1" /> if I speak, my pain is not relieved,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">and if I refrain from speakingp> <p class="poetry">&#8211; how<n id="3" /> much of it goes away?p>