His servant!

His servant! oh, that sounds fine,

if nowadays large and small

run more or less together,

and burn equally with longing to serve;

there the head does not bend alone,

not only each leg is scratched there.

The appropriate light of love

can also enfranchise this word:

his servant!

Should I do the same? no, no,

I don't do servitude:

the one I say I'm attached to,

must first grant me his patronage;

if not, then another may be

his servant.