1. Great men are like a herd of camels
They raise children as the ostrich raised its young

2. Some people imagined something and made it
A certainty, though it was followed by illusion

3. We were ignorant, yet for creatures there is a Maker
Whose existence a group acknowledged or a solitary one assumed

4. And everyone knows goodness has a place
And excelling in establishing it the arrows have gathered

5. And where are people like clouds, if watered
They are sated, and if rain is sought from them, they refuse

6. So if you want your money to bring you joy
Love the needy or spend it, and worries will smile at you

7. It is but an arrow, neither stopping nor
Catching game in its quiver, the arrow