MERITS PROVE THEMSELVES.
Power does not need pretence.
It's a grace a person has.
No one needs to show it off.
It's not urgent to announce.

Who can rob a little rose
of its fragrant nice smell.
It will die and drop its leaves,
but its smell won't say farewell.

Lion, though you are too old,
foxes can't approach your den.
Lions keep their names as kings.
Foxes near their dens aren't seen.

Keep your splendour, jasmine tree.
Greet the sun at rise and set.
Nothing can possess your sight;
your fragrance by all is smelt.
BY JOSEPH ZENIEH
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
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