1 We know the source of the shaft, the rain-cloud, strong with hundred powers by God's command: by this may I bring health unto thy body: let the channels pour their burthen freely as of old.

2 We know the source of the shaft: God the Friend, the Lord of hundred powers: by this may I bring health unto thy body: let the channels pour their burthen freely as of old.

3 We know the source of the shaft: God the All-Seeing, strong with hundred powers: by this may I bring health unto thy body: let the channels pour their burthen freely as of old.

4 We know the source of the shaft: the Moon endowed by God with hundred powers: by this may I bring health unto thy body: let the channels pour their burthen freely as of old.

5 We know the source of the shaft: the Sun endowed by God with hundred powers: by this may I bring health unto thy body: let the channels pour their burthen freely as of old.

6 Whate'er hath gathered, as it flowed, in bowels, bladder, or in groins, thus let the conduit, free from check, pour all its burthen as of old.

7 I lay the passage open as one cleaves the dam that bars the lake: thus let the conduit, free from check, pour all its burthen as of old.

8 Now hath the portal been unclosed as of the sea that holds the flood: thus let the conduit, free from check, pour all its burthen as of old.

9 Even as the arrow flies away when loosened from the archer's bow, thus let the burthen be discharged from channels that are checked no more.