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 * That I may make it clear, and it may give light like a lamp.
 * In order to follow Liongo, the lion of cities.

Oh! much, much, I begin with many, as well as go forward
 * and finish, the child of good things.


 * Then if you see a wrong-doer, a man your equal,
 * Turn your heart and put on vigour and bitterness,
 * Be like a leopard, a she leopard, among the flock.

Child, how see you your goat, in the pathway; its horns
 * held and a milker milking it?


 * My brother, oh my friend, let us say words to profit you.
 * The gentleman must take away shameful things,
 * I fear dying for you, such things are not before the man of position.

My child, how see you his vileness standing; without his
 * consenting to die, and regrets follow after.

Mtoto waonaje mbuzi wako katika mwendo amekamatwa pembe na mkami akimkama.


 * Ndugu yangu, ewe rafiki, tuseme mambo yamekujalia,
 * Huyu mungwana shuruti jambo la kufathaika aiondoe,
 * Nakuogopa kufa mwenyi daraja havikuelekea.

Mtoto wangu waonaje unyonge wake husimama; asirithie
 * kufa na majuto yakaja nyuma.