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Rh sêng bŏk pîn sór

liông tō kiông tē

iā siâ hoat hoa

bī bû tăt khai

ti kak tí bóan

A meager soil produces late flowers; “slow rises worth by poverty depressed;” but let no man despise the snake which has no horns, for who can say that it may not become a dragon?