Nr. 240
Calcutta nr. 240
This oppressive sky of lofty fabric
Has never unravelled the knot of any bad man
Whenever it sees a heart that is scarred
It places another scar on the top of the first.
Nicolas 1867 - 127
Cette Roue de si haute structure, dont le métier est d'exercer la tyrannie, n'a jamais dénoué pour personne nœud d'aucune difficulté. Partout où elle a entrevu un cœur ulcéré, elle est venue y ajouter plaie sur plaie.
Payne 1898 - 258
Yon sphere oppression-using, faith-and-foundationless,
There never yet was mortal it lightened of his stress:
Nay, unto whom it spieth, that hath a wound at heart,
Another wound it addeth for very wantonness.
Thompson 1906 - 201
Oppressive from the first this wheel on high
Will ne'er for any one his knot untie,
Where'er a wounded heart it doth espy,
To add another wound it straight doth try.
Whinfield 1883 - 154
The wheel on high, still busied with despite,
Will ne'er unloose a wretch from his sad plight;
But when it lights upon a smitten heart,
Straightway essays another blow to smite.