1. Let not my like make you shun kindness.
Where can the like of me be found? May the ropes of the water-skin be cut off!

2. Seek beneath my worn-out saddle cloth, and you will find
Behind it good traces and tales.

3. The generous is not made worthless by noble descent.
The pearl is in an oyster shell, and wine is in a jar.

4. I am the son of my past nobility
So leave my ancestors be, and do not cling to saddle girths.

5. For musk is placed on the chieftain's cowlick
Due to its fragrance, though it is attributed to the rat.