If such fears troubled thee, why didst thou give us birth? To whom shall we open our mouths? If thou shouldst forsake us, who will ask me if I am weary? What friend will draw me to himself? Who knows the distress of my soul? Who will read the riddle of my troubling? Tuka says, Didst thou find in me no due regard for thee?
Be not afraid; let me meet thee eye to eye; I shall put thee to no expense. Would it be duteous of me to make thee lose aught? To repeat thy name day and night is too small a service for me to do thee. Much or little, this weak service we shall render thee, and thus we shall close our days. I will spend my own store of merits. I will lay no burden on thee, Tuka says. We are but children by nature, and long to see thee.
Be not afraid; let me meet thee eye to eye; I shall put thee to no expense. Would it be duteous of me to make thee lose aught? To repeat thy name day and night is too small a service for me to do thee. Much or little, this weak service we shall render thee, and thus we shall close our days. I will spend my own store of merits. I will lay no burden on thee, Tuka says. We are but children by nature, and long to see thee.