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Poetic Edda

45. If another thou hast  whom thou hardly wilt trust, Yet good from him wouldst get,Thou shalt speak him fair,  but falsely think, And fraud with falsehood requite.
46. So is it with him  whom thou hardly wilt trust, And whose mind thou mayst not know;Laugh with him mayst thou,  but speak not thy mind, Like gifts to his shalt thou give.
47. Young was I once,  and wandered alone, And nought of the road I knew;Rich did I feel  when a comrade I found, For man is man's delight.
48. The lives of the brave  and noble are best, Sorrows they seldom feed;But the coward fear  of all things feels, And not gladly the niggard gives.
49. My garments once  in a field I gave To a pair of carven poles;Heroes they seemed  when clothes they had, But the naked man is nought.
50. On the hillside drear  the fir-tree dies, All bootless its needles and bark;It is like a man  whom no one loves,— Why should his life be long?

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