MEN WIN NOT TRUTH OF TAO 
 
BECAUSE THEIR MINDS ARE WIRED. 
 
THE MIND UNCURBED, THE SELF’S PERTURBED, 
 
AND LOSES TUNE OF TIDE. 
 
 
 
 
LOST, THE EXTERNAL LURES ; 
 
THEY TURN TO SEEK IT :  THEN 
 
ALL THINGS PERPLEX, CONFUSE, AND VEX 
 
THOSE MISERABLE MEN. 
 
 
 
 
DISORDERED THOUGHTS ARISE ; 
 
BODY AND MIND GROW SICK. 
 
DISGRACE AND FEAR GROW YEAR BY YEAR 
 
TO THEIR CLIMACTERIC. 
 
 
 
 
WILD, THEY ARE TOSSED ABOUT 
 
THROUGH LIFE AND DEATH ; THEY QUIVER, 
 
SUNK IN SEA-STRESS OF BITTERNESS, 
 
AND LOSE THE TAO FOR EVER. 
 
 
 
 
THE TRUE, THE ABIDING TAO ! 
 
WHO UNDERSTANDETH HATH ; 
 
WHO HATH THE TAO IS HERE AND NOW 
 
IN SILENCE OF THE PATH.