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.
Second 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 stars from mountain to mountain;
Those who are deaf, whom music and the fellowship of words have forsaken.
All: