Quenchless lamp of ancestry goes
When foul idleness encloses.
To make your home an ideal home
Loath sloth as sloth; refuse it room.
The fool who fosters sluggishness
Before he dies ruins his house.
Who strive not high, sunk deep in sloth
Ruin their house by evil growth.
To lag, forget, idle and doze
These four are pleasure boats of loss.
With all the wealth of lords of earth
The slothful gain nothing of worth.
The slothful lacking noble deeds
Subject themselves to scornful words.
If sloth invades a noble house
It will become a slave of foes.
The blots on race and rule shall cease
When one from sloth gets his release.
The slothless king shall gain en masse
All regions trod by Lord apace.
FREEDOM FROM SLOTH
