1. How could you turn away a friend who saw a flaw
In a place of intimacy, yet greeted you with anger?

2. You used to grant me my rights and know
My worth, preserving the courtesy of manners.

3. Then you turned to another, shaming me
Without crime or cause from you.

4. Yet the least in me is forgiveness
For my need, after you pled your case.

5. So choose, for I have two options:
A fair excuse, or thanks without jest.

6. If you find the former, as you used to act,
And if not, then by what was written in the books.