1. With a mark that keeps diminishing as it's eaten
By miserliness until it became empty of disease
١. وذي إثرةٍ ما زال ينقص أكلهُ
من البخل حتى عاد خلواً من الداء
2. And I left him for a year and visited him
Yet nothing increased but a lock upon the water
٢. وفارقتهُ مقدارَ عامٍ وزرتهُ
فما زاد شيئاً غير قفل على الماء