1. I live for my family, I do not want their praise
As a reward, and my Lord is a witness and judge

2. May God be pleased with me if I earn the truth
Shall I neglect it by earning mere poetry?

3. And people have those whom I cannot bear to hear
Like the voice of a singer in the abode of revelry

4. And the hardest thing on the ear is an expression
With which a foster child seeks to trick us