1. Seek out companions of refined taste, and gain
The essence of their time in their gatherings, if you are perceptive.

2. Make your heart an eye in their presence
Roaming in truth between hearing and sight.

3. These barren lands where rocks overflow
Conceal within them the spark of the flint.

4. If you touch them all, they seem one,
Yet the flint's secret reveals the latent spark.

5. So strike with the flint of humility in their company,
To see their hearts burst into flame.

6. If you hear yet do not truly realize,
Or your eyes see fantasy, not fact;

7. You miss the news in the news.
How many have seen them close in rank