strange is my condition and my burden gars me pine:

Many others are in luck and from miseries are free, And Fortune

never loads them with loads the like o' mine:

They live their happy days in all solace and delight; Eat, drink,

and dwell in honor 'mid the noble and the digne:

All living things were made of a little drop of sperm, Thine

origin is mine and my provenance is thine;

Yet the difference and distance 'twixt the twain of us are far As

the difference of savor 'twixt vinegar and wine:

But at Thee, O God All-wise! I venture not to rail Whose ordinance