1. The spear conveys more than a letter you address
To a deaf-mute in whom hearing cannot be found

2. Yet God's power once saved a footman kept chaste
Against a raging horseman of great renown

3. If nights have tried you with promises delayed
Kindness feels hampered when overly forestalled

4. Goodness spreads like rain showering a glad glade
Till when scattered its shape no more can be recalled

5. Too much mingling breeds envy amid folk
Once apart their forms no longer can ferment

6. Fates never make the fine-necked envious of
The less-graced whose chance for pride was never sent