1. Tell the prince who hopes for largesse
From one who comes seeking goodness faithfully

2. Indeed, I kept your company for an age, all that time I saw
Naught but a veil before your bounty, and closed doors

3. And how many wretched souls in misery came to you
When misfortune bared its fangs against them

4. Yet you opened no door of ease for them
Nor bolstered any from destitution with support

5. Like one present yet hidden from your eyes just as
One absent from you whose fortune passed him by