May your days lack the friendship of those men without soul
who hold the wealth they have inside their closed fists
and try to cling to things, like the rat that waits
for the brief time between maturation and harvest
to take the grain that hangs low and with it stuff his hole!
But may your days have the friendship of those with strength
and undiminishing resolution like the hungry tiger
who will not eat a fierce boar then and there because
it fell to his left, but will on the next day
wake up famished on a great mountain and leave
his cave empty behind him to bring
down to his right side a massive bull elephant!