Ar-Lamech of Sirap's Songs Rescued from the Deluge

The Gesänge|songs In this 18th-century context, "songs" refers to lyrical poems or hymns intended to express the author's inner emotional and spiritual state. which I am just now publishing,
are but modest Muster|samples of his way of seeing,
feeling, and expressing what he saw and
felt. Perhaps one day that great
Werk|work This likely refers to a comprehensive magnum opus—perhaps a philosophical or autobiographical treatise—that the narrator believes is still missing. may be discovered, with which he incessantly
occupied himself for half of his life until his death;
about which, however, at this time one has so
little detailed information to offer, as one
is ever able or permitted to guarantee.