1. She said, "Do you deny in my old age the favor
I did for you in days of poverty and hardship?

2. You drank freely of the water of my life, happy and delighted,
And I gave you nothing but knowledge and good breeding.

3. How can you disdain to visit me now
When you’ve become a man of wealth and standing?

4. I knocked at your door, begging for kindness,
Voicing my hopes, but you did not answer."