| 1 | The tree comes up to my window like the yearning voice of the dumb earth. | |
| 2 | Hunger a muted drum of the body devouring the fleshly silence of the Siberian night. | |
| 3 | The tree come up to my window like the yearning voice of the dumb earth. | |
| 4 | And each time we ignored God's voice, our conscience grew more deaf, and our heart hardened. | |
| 5 | On this final point, an ultimate confirmation could be derived from the symbolic meaning of the healing of the deaf-mute epileptic boy (9:14-29). |