Your past life, tell what once you tried to do,

What you intend on doing this next May!

There he stands, reads an English newspaper,

Stock-still, and now, again upon the move,

Paces the beach to taste the Spring, like you,

Since both are human beings in God's eye.

He will have understood you, I engage.

Endeavor, for your part, to understand

He knows more, and loves better, than the world

That never heard his name, and never may.