1. If we try to visit, we're turned away,
Or if not, blame quickly comes our way,

2. We can't avoid your hostility,
Whether we come or choose to stay.

3. What can one who seeks aid expect to gain,
When in your eyes he's but a worthless drain?

4. The minister's letters to his agents, so I'm told,
Are payment of a kind, if not pure gold.

5. So do not stint in granting our requests,
No excuse has one who's mighty yet contests.