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Desiring happiness, their virtue kept in secret,
unbound from the ties of company —
in whose park do they dwell today,
the young and the old alike?
The wise who have passed beyond the thicket of craving (vanatha) —
homage to those great seers (mahesī) —
who, in a world given to eagerness,
dwell free of eagerness.
They, having cut the net of Death (Maccu),
the firm-strung web of that master of deceit,
go their way, rending it asunder —
who could attain the destination to which they go?
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.