1. O full moon, the wise at heart
Strike similes about you

2. Blood flows for the beloved
Of no use is love that won’t last

3. And know your neighbor’s rights
The generous know them

4. And know the guest one day
Will praise or blame

5. And people are built
By praised or damned deeds

6. And know, my son
The learned benefit from knowledge

7. Matters most delicate
Stir the mighty

8. Giving in is like religion
Even the hostile may soften

9. Tyranny fells its people
Its home injustice and bleakness

10. Often strangers are brothers
And intimates cut you off

11. People are honored for wealth
And disdained for lack, the destitute

12. The pious may know poverty
And fools abundance of sin

13. One is tested, the other spared
Who suffers more?

14. People withhold rights
Yet freely give to baseness

15. No soul that hopes for paradise
Can have intention so vile

16. And sees generations before him
Lie as still as kindling

17. The world falls to ruins
No lasting bliss or misery

18. Every man disgusted
By marriage or averse

19. What child knows which
Raised him, he or the orphan?

20. War's companion is one long gripped
By its talons' imposing shade

21. One who won't tire of its bite
And never flees the fray

22. And know war cannot be waged
By the feckless rogue

23. The finest horses in the fray
Are gifts at the helm of the bold