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: