“Their sleep,” “their stretchings,” “their awaking,” lead to heaven.
Without the least exertion on their parts by acts,
The “right and left-hand registers” draw them by facts.
The “right-hand register” ’s the record of good deeds;[346]
The “left-hand register” ’s the list of fleshly greeds.[347]40
But both of these abolished are in case of saints.
To them such things are but as echo dies and faints.
Though good and evil may their echoes round thee peal,
The echoing mountain hears them not in the ordeal.
Now Joseph once again inquired: “What offering bringest?”