<p class="poetry">Do you count the months they must fulfill,p> <p class="poetry">and do you know the time they give birth?<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">&#8220;O that I could be<n id="1" /> as<n id="2" /> I wasp> <p class="poetry">in the months now gone,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">in the days<n id="4" /> when God watched<n id="5" /> over me,p>

<p class="poetry">That night &#8211; let darkness seize<n id="1" /> it;p> <p class="poetry">let it not be included<n id="2" /> among the days of the year;p> <p class="poetry">let it not enter among the number of the months!<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">thus<n id="1" /> I have been made to inherit<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">months of futility,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">and nights of sorrow<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">have been appointed<n id="5" /> to me.p>