Can change the current of our lives,

Which bears its own compelling force990

Within itself. Each life goes on

In order fixed and absolute,

Unmoved by prayer. Nay fear itself

Has been by many found a bane;

For, while they sought to shun their fate,

They came upon it in their flight.

But now the palace gates resound, and see,995

The sightless king himself, with none to guide,