HERE is thy footstool and there rest thy feet where live the poorest, and lowliest, and lost.
When I try to bow to thee, my obeisance cannot reach down to the depth where thy feet rest among the poorest, and lowliest, and lost.
Pride can never approach to where thou walkest in the clothes of the humble among the poorest, and lowliest, and lost.
My heart can never find its way to where thou keepest company with the companionless among the poorest, the lowliest, and the lost.
這是你的腳凳,你在最貧最賤最失所的人群中歇足。
我想向你鞠躬,我的敬禮不能達到你歇足地方的深處——
那最貧最賤最失所的人群中。
你穿著破敝的衣服,在最貧最賤最失所的人群中行走,
驕傲永遠不能走近這個地方。
你和那最貧最賤最失所的人們當中沒有朋友的人做伴,
我的心永遠找不到那個地方。