MEDITATION ON 11
In what do I take refuge,
with so much doubt?
How can you say to me.
"bird, hill"
without explaining?
Am I to fly like a bird
to the mountain,
or fly like a mountain bird?
Or fly to my own hill?
with so much doubt?
How can you say to me.
"bird, hill"
without explaining?
Am I to fly like a bird
to the mountain,
or fly like a mountain bird?
Or fly to my own hill?
When the foundations
have been thrown over,
what can the just do?
have been thrown over,
what can the just do?
For the foundations
are destroyed--
what has the Righteous
One done?
are destroyed--
what has the Righteous
One done?
If the foundations are destroyed
what has the righteous man accomplished?
what has the righteous man accomplished?
quoniam quae perfecisti, destruxerunt
Because what you fashioned,
they destroyed,
but what did the righteous do?
they destroyed,
but what did the righteous do?
If the foundations are destroyed,
what can the righteous do?
what can the righteous do?
Quando fundamenta evertuntur,
justus quid facere valet?
justus quid facere valet?
For the laws are dissipated,
what has the just man done?
what has the just man done?
leges dissipatae sunt
There is so much doubt--
how is it to be
dissipated,
overturned,
destroyed?
how is it to be
dissipated,
overturned,
destroyed?
The foundations
are a monument
to uncertainty.
are a monument
to uncertainty.
December 12 2015, revised December 12 2016
