Prevod

(No one can advance in any discipline without submitting to its principles.) While a young beginner takes Lessons in dancing on the tightrope From a highly skilled Acrobat, He says to him: "Look here, Master, "How this great pole hampers and tires me, 5 This thing we call a sausage or counterweight; Lugging a long, thick cudgel about Is what I find so tiresome in our trade. "Why do you insist I submit to it, When I lack neither strength nor agility? 10 This step, for instance, or this pose— Could I not do it better without this lump of wood? "Just watch me now... It is not hard... not at all..." So saying, he lets the counterweight go. He loses his balance... Farewell! What was that? 15 What else could it be? A thumping fall. "You take a help for a hindrance, Rash young man!" (the Master said.) "Do you shun skill and method? Well, my boy, This will not be your last hard knock!" 20