and your holy hand, St. John's eve,

hardens the stone of the green olive.

"Lord of riches and poverty,

Of fortune and mishap,

who gives to the rich luck and idleness,

and pain and hope to the poor!

"Lord, Lord, in the inconstant wheel

of the year I have sown my sowing

that has an equal chance with the coins

of a gambler sown on the gambling-table!