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Nr. 33

Calcutta nr. 33

The appointed time of our coming and going,
Its limit & its commencement are not apparent
No one is reliable for one moment in the matter
Of whence we come and whither we go.

Christensen 1927 - 80
Of that circle which encloses our coming and going we
can make out neither beginning nor end.
Nobody can utter a single word rightly to explain the
mystery, whence is our coming, and whither our going.

Payne 1898 - 44
To this time in whose lapses our coming and going is,
Patent end nor beginning nor ebbing nor flowing is;
On this point none utt'reth a word that truth-showing is;
Whence we come, whither bounden we are, there no knowing is.

Thompson 1906 - 711
To this age wherein we both come and go,
Beginning, end nor boundary doth show;
No one can speak the truth upon this point.
For whence we come and where we go, none know.