1. My people in the long years, if lean
grows time, their pots a-boil have been;

2. their fires for their neighbors then
signal that food there be within.

3. So through a tribe I came to ken
they deemed their boons to others lent

4. them virtue. He there who went
in as their guest came out their friend.

5. In word, in deed, to all amend
they made; and one there said in commend: