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Lo! I know your plans, and the devices, wherewith ye would do me violence!

For ye say, Where is the house of the noble-minded? And where the dwelling-tent of the lawless?

Have ye not asked the passers-by in the way? And, their signs, can ye not recognise?

That, to the day of calamity, is the wicked reserved, to the day of indignant visitation, are they led.

Who can declare - to his face - his way? And, what, he, hath done, who shall recompense to him?

Yet, he, to the graves, is borne, and, over the tomb, one keepeth watch;

Pleasant to him are the mounds of the torrent-bed, - and, after him, doth every man march, as, before him, there were without number.