Whilst, except in you, noble father and sons,
I will not place my hope for protection in anyone else,
I pray you to drag me along with your mercy-hook.
6. Though I cannot repay you in proportion to whatever your favours have been,
I pray that, with my soul not enslaved by attraction or repulsion,[[15]]
I may hold fast to your teaching, O protectors,
And may always put my best energy into the endeavour.
III. (His Contemporaries).
7. However, nowadays, in this snow mountain solitude,
(There are those who) whilst promising to follow the teaching themselves,