1. I have learned from experience every
Beautiful act that adorns mankind

2. If a friend denied affection
Though I counted him rest and support

3. I left off reproach and blamed myself
Not forcing him to be mean or disgraceful

4. But I was gentle with him little by little
When we two together strayed and wandered astray

5. And though we were at war it was as if
We had never met in the wilderness

6. I was lenient when with the exalted I sinned
After circumstance turned affection toward us

7. And the merit in it was his because
We saw in his changeableness what we saw