1. If you were not remiss in your love,
Or if you were blameless in your virtue,

2. Then indeed in difficulty is sweetness -
Cross over the plains in your shrouded soul.

3. And I said to a companion in fear -
Indeed, you look out for the horses.

4. Indeed you call out when facing
The highest outlook - so look!

5. Let us be cheered for an hour by a knight
Who makes the lowest places beautiful to behold.

6. So drive the whip against the lively one
Bare as the crack in a yellow rock,

7. His foreleg beating strongly as
The lame man’s staff leans to the left.