Each season has

Its ending and beginning;

Each age has

Its change and transformation;

Misery and happiness

Regularly alternate.

Here our views

Are thwarted, and yet

The result may

In the aftermath

Have our approval.

There we insist

On our own opinions,

And looking at things

Differently from others,

Try to correct them,

While we are

In error ourselves.

As a saying runs,

'What comes from outside

Cannot be defined in advance.'

Superiors all wish

Their subordinates to be faithful,

But that faithfulness

May not secure their confidence.

Parents all wish

Their children to be filial,

But that filial duty

May not secure their love.