1. I'm ashamed that my certainty might be seen
As complaining of something that's beyond hope.

2. My knowledge remains, whenever I set it forth,
That your capacity for generosity is little.

3. If counting others beside you as distance to you
Is a journey, my journey on earth away from you is none.

4. Prudence refused me staying at the abode of loss,
Whose people are uncouth and rude.

5. Is he who hasn't gone farther estranged from you
If you said to a freeman, “You are ignorant”?

6. I will cut short the saddle girths of blame with brief words,
Though the effort of thinking through it is long.

7. When a man's hands are stingy toward a man
In bestowing a gift, his hands are mean.