You can’t win, you can’t draw,
sometimes you can’t even lose,
but even to train up to such a fight
is Victory. That man is lucky who
has even had his challenge listened to:
he can go out at night sometimes
and play around with the beasts,
and not get locked indoors to sleep
with the women, children, and slaves,
dreaming: “Isn’t there something else
that I should do or die? What
have I got to lose except securities?”