[BNP/E3, 79 – 23-25]

From rock and plant and beast there is unfurled

The banner of a truth men would not speak

A hideous truth: “ALL’S EVIL IN THE WORLD”

Whatev {…} weak {…} strong and weak

{…} all we would seek

Is not or is departed

     Revenge is nature’s most benevolent Law.

[23^v]

In lust and lust and all desire in pain

And {…} if we obtain

With its possession all content is fled

And the[1] monotonous {…} of lead

Crushes our being {…}

Filling with fear and hate the blank of destiny.

[24^r]

Yet all that is had to be. All is Fate

And poor and rich, {…}

And freedom dreaming in the coils of hate

All are outcomings of the dearthless hate

The nature bears cult her forms and laws

The work perchance of a remorseless Cause

Whose crime the world is and which ever have[2]

God {…}

[24^v]

Men threw his longings and his best desires

Upon the speechless Nothing unrevealed

Fruitless {…}, as if man’s love-fires

[25^r]

Who would desire good if it were on earth

Who would hate evil if he knew it not

[25^v]

Weep, weep weep weep for never human tear

Can fit the suffering, whereby earth is bound

{…}

[1] the ^/a\

[2] have ^/named\