Come as you are; do not loiter over br your toilet. br If your braided hair has loosened if br the parting of your hair be not straight, br if the ribbons of your bodice be not br fastened, do not mind. br Come as you are; do not loiter over br your toilet. br Come, with quick steps over the br grass. br If the raddle come from your feet br because of the dew, of the rings of bells br upon your feet slacken, if pearls drop br out of your chain, do not mind. br Come, with quick steps over the br grass. br Do you see the clouds wrapping the br sky? br Flocks of cranes fly up from the br further river-bank and fitful gusts of br wind rush over the heath. br The anxious cattle run to their stalls br in the village. br Do you see the clouds wrapping the br sky? br In vain you light your toilet lamp br --it flickers and goes out in the br wind. br Who can know that your eyelids br have not been touched with lamp- br black? For your eyes are darker br than rain-clouds. br In vain you light your toilet lamp-- br it goes out. br Come as you are; do not loiter over br your toilet. br If the wreath is not woven, who br cares; if the wrist-chain had not been br linked, let it be. br The sky is overcast with clouds--it br is late. br Come as you are; do not loiter over br your toilet.