1. Do not sleep upon your saddles, for it is only
The stars that are pelted with glances of the wakeful.

2. And many a man of energy has sons
Who seek their living through the toil of the indolent.

3. My fortune did not leave me at peace in the fray,
But cried in the days, "O sluggard!"

4. Death has a limit which is not brought nigh
By white breasts or breast of mourners.