Nirvana!
My past and future life let me remember not,
Nirvana!
Detach my soul from all my memory and thought,
Nirvana!
And drive away from me the faces mean and foul,
Nirvana!
Destroy the altars and the man-made gods that prowl,
Nirvana!
Strong men’s lives and weaklings’ deaths: may these oppressions cease,