1. Generosity has died, its limbs are severed,
And its pacts have become like the owl's abode.
١. ماتَ السَخاء وَقَطعت أَوصالَهُ
وَغَدَت مَعاهدهُ مَقَرّ البومِ
2. We would have been content with stinginess, had it been
A stinginess without harm or evil.
٢. وَالشح كُنا نَرتَضيهِ لَو أَنَّهُ
شَح بِغَير مَضَرة أَوشومِ
3. The gifts we bestowed upon ourselves were coffee,
That resembled a sealed flask.
٣. أَنعام أَكبرنا عَلَينا قَهوة
قَد أَشبهت قارورة المَحجوم