1. With gentle words he calmed his heated foe
How many glances are soothed by soft rebuke?

2. The dove may never see the hawk as friend
Yet wariness of hawks is the leaves' wont

3. If a guest should come, compelled by need
Sustenance for the starved is food enough

4. A habit you'd acquired you later dropped
Not heedlessness of right nor disregard

5. Contentment of the soul is riches indeed
As greed's excess is poverty's worst need