1. If you spend your days
In pursuit of knowledge and trade

2. You will add profit upon the root
And strength to the core

3. Money will pass as a guest
Through your overflowing pouches

4. And you will not spend on yourself
Except sparingly

5. For you have attained what is more precious
Than wealth, if you but knew

6. Are not the black and the white
Of the same nights and rivers?

7. O wise one, what is most precious
Is neither white nor yellow