Verily known in honoured yards of thoughts
hallowed grounds far from the mindless
who ply their troth in mirages and arid gainsays
that if the axe forgets the tree remembers
so verily we shall help them waste their attentions

For untroubled barking dogs strains wistful barks
yearning for butchers choice of his master
as in dogs dream that sirloin lays juicy in its bowl
much as town hicks wear ruling crowns
let us verily help them waste their attentions

Teeth do not see poverty it gnaws all in mouth
fools do likewise to praise foolhardiness
wise attends to business with the market vendor
and not to the din and noise of the market
methinks verily lets help them waste their attentions

The child of a rat is a rat without question or doubt
need we wait or cry for a scholar to tell us so
we know he unable to dance says the yard is dry an stony
and slander by the stream will be heard by the frogs
so verily we say just look at them wasting their attentions