1 And crying and lamenting he started saying, “O wondrous head, ornamented like heaven; O sunlight upon heaven and earth; your hair is known from Theman, your eyes from Bosra, your ears from thunder, your tongue from bugle, and your brain is a small creation; the head, the movement of the whole body, is trustworthy and very beautiful, beloved of all but as soon as it falls in the earth it is unrecognized.
2 O hands which hold so well, which are easily taught and hard-working, through which the body is fed.
3 O hands so adept, gathering materials, together you ornamented houses.
4 O fingers, beautified and adorned with gold and silver; even great structures are made by the fingers; the three joints stretch the palms and they gather good things together; but now you have become strangers to this world.
5 O feet, which walk so well, moving by themselves so very quickly and untiring.
6 O knees, thus joined, without you the body does not move; the feet run together with the sun and the moon, night and day, gathering all things together, food and drink which nourish the body.
7 O feet, so swift and well moving, stirring up the face of the earth and ornamenting houses with every good thing.
8 O feet, which bear the whole body, which walk straightway to the temples,? making repentance and supplicating the saints, and now suddenly you are to remain unmoved.
9 O head, hands, and feet, till now I have held you fast.
10 O soul, what placed you in the humble and wretched body?
11 Yet now, separated from it, you ascend where the Lord calls you and the wretched body goes away for judgment.
12 O beautiful body, hair shed by the stars, head like heaven adorned.
13 O face sweet-smelling, eyes like windows, a voice like a bugle’s sound, a tongue which talks so easily, a beard well trimmed, hair like the stars, head high as heaven, a body adorned, the illuminator elegant and renowned, yet now after falling within the earth, your beauty beneath the earth is unseen.”