1. A man's intellect is the best gift he's given
Of all life's blessings, it is most heaven-laden

2. When God completes a man's intellect for him
His manners and goals become fully ripened

3. With intellect, a lad lives on among people
His knowledge and trials flow by its steeple

4. A lad is adorned among men by his reason
Though earnings in life have eluded this season

5. A lad is disgraced by his lacking of reason
Though his roots and kin are of fame and high treason

6. He who prevails with intellect and endeavor
In life's travails, is fortune's favored forever