If the time [of the present] be spent in vain,
In the time of the future must sorrow be borne.
The seventh:—
That a kindness done is not for the sake of others only,
But also for one's own sake, should well be kept in mind.
The eighth:—
Even the sorrow of numberless misfortunes
We shall easily escape if the heart be pure.
The ninth:—
If the heart and the speech be kept straight and true,
The Gods and the Buddhas will surely guard us well.
The tenth:—
In order to become a person held in honor,
As a filial person one must [first] be known.
The reader may think to himself, "How terribly exigent the training that could require the repetition of moral lessons even in a 'ball-play song'!" True,—but it produced perhaps the very sweetest type of woman that this world has ever known.