Study Desk

Hast thou entered as far as the springs of the sea? Or, through the secret recesses of the resounding deep, hast thou wandered?

Have the gates of death been disclosed to thee? And, the gates of the death-shade, couldst thou descry?

Hast thou well considered, even the breadths of the earth? Tell - if thou knowest it all!

Where then is the way, the light shall abide? And, the darkness, where then is its place?

That thou mayest conduct it unto the bound thereof, and that thou mayest perceive the paths to its house.

Thou knowest, for, then, hadst thou been born! And, in number, thy days are many!