<p class="poetry">Is<n id="1" /> not my power to help myself nothing,p> <p class="poetry">and has not every resource<n id="2" /> been driven from me?p>

<p class="poetry">&#8220;Refrain from talking<n id="1" /> with me so that<n id="2" /> I may speak;p> <p class="poetry">then let come to me<n id="3" /> what may.<n id="4" />p>

<t /><p class="poetry">&#8220;He has put my relatives<n id="1" /> far from me;p> <p class="poetry">my acquaintances only<n id="2" /> turn away from me.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">Will you never<n id="1" /> look away from me,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">will you not let me alone<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">long enough to swallow my spittle?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>

<p class="poetry">I will never<n id="1" /> declare that you three<n id="2" /> are in the right;p> <p class="poetry">until I die, I will not set aside my integrity!p>

<t /><p class="poetry">&#8220;But now they mock me, those who are younger<n id="1" /> than I,p> <p class="poetry">whose fathers I disdained too much<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">to put with my sheep dogs.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">you asked,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">&#8216;Who is this who darkens counselp> <p class="poetry">without knowledge?&#8217;p> <p class="poetry">But<n id="2" /> I have declared without understanding<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">things too wonderful for me to know.<n id="4" />p>