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Plain text of Book Three · Thirty-second Piece

When will my measure be full,

when will my lawsuit be settled?

When shall I lay aside the bodily garment

and go to the place of life,

to the place of the house of the good,

to the world in which my home stands?

I will go forth and go to the home of my origin,

I will not return to my house here.

Woe and grief it was to me

that I had to dwell in this world,

where life answered me from the fruits,

and radiance answered me from afar.

From a place that is wide and far

I perceived and knew my Lord. —

The Living God is exalted and victorious,

and victorious is the man who went this way.