1. Had I been weak of spear-shaft, a morsel for others,

    then they would have left me to neither embitter nor sweeten.

  2. But I am a branch watered by an ancestral root-stock;

    just so, root-stocks bring forth the branch from the root.

  3. Stout and tight-knit of timber—you can hear its ring

    when, in broad daylight, it is struck against green, sappy arrow-shafts.

Sol 5.6