Wherefore remember tears?
Shall tears be dried by remembrance?
This voice is apparently not heard by the priests and acolytes.
First and third priests chant:
Ah, Kwan-yin, mother of love,
Remember
Those in pain,
Those who are held fast in pain of their own or another's seeking.
Those for whom the world is too difficult
And too beautiful to bear,
All:
Kwan-yin, remember, remember.
First and third priests:
Those who are blind, who shall never read the writing upon the fierce rivers.
Who shall never see the slow flowing of the stars from mountain to mountain.
Those who are deaf, whom music and the fellowship of words have forsaken
All: