If Meer country people cover their dead and go
on sowing without loss of time; so must
you seek your own gain, since a body of flesh is
bestowed on you. The grain drawn forth by the
hand sprouts sooner than what is left in the bag;
thus is it with the welfare of man. We have no
authority over time; the wise must solve this
riddle. Tuka says, The wise man takes counsel
with himself in this mortal world.
on sowing without loss of time; so must
you seek your own gain, since a body of flesh is
bestowed on you. The grain drawn forth by the
hand sprouts sooner than what is left in the bag;
thus is it with the welfare of man. We have no
authority over time; the wise must solve this
riddle. Tuka says, The wise man takes counsel
with himself in this mortal world.