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Discipline.

Never the truth does us harm.
  As a mother she sometimes will punish.

Rearing with firmness her child,
  checking the flattering maid.


Zucht.

Wahrheit ist niemals schädlich,
  sie straft—und die Strafe der Mutter

Bildet das schwankende Kind,
  wehret der schmeichelnden Magd.