Is happy also—’tis an easy way!
So easy, I am fearful of mishap.
Some fatal argument the God must find
That linked us first. The dice are in His lap—
Let Him decide in His imperial mind!
My choice; to see entirely—and be blind!
Yet I bethink me of that holy man,
(Pagan albeit) my stirrup’s wisdom-share:
“Learn this from Thothmes the Egyptian.
Use only in thine uttermost despair!”