What is a poem in front of a stone?

First of all, the last sentence

Perseverance.

Second, the source

"Xunzi's exhortation to learn": "Persevere, the dead wood does not fold; Perseverance can open the stone. "

Third, the meaning of sentences

If you don't know how to keep doing things, then you can't easily break rotten wood; If you persist in doing things, even an object as hard as a stone can carve beautiful patterns.