1. The two sugar cubes were always a pair
If one was taken away, the other would be a sad lump

2. And we have a single sugar cube
With you, its pair is certain

3. So pair the sugar cube with its brother
It is miserable without it

4. What you gently decline is precious
And the praise of the noble is precious

5. And hoping for generosity in people is an assumption
While hoping for your generosity is a certainty

6. What is drawn from fire is embers
What we draw from you is a spring

7. So excuse us for insisting during times of need
For the excuse with you is evident

8. Your initial generosity incited repetition from us
And the generosity of the noble makes that easier

9. It suffices us to shy from insistence in times of need
For your generosity is assured

10. You are one who is not feared to make excuses
Upon insistence, nor feared to break an oath

11. And how often the generous one draws
From stinginess like an ambush, never from you that ambush

12. So if the dormant stinginess in him is provoked
By insistence, that dormant arises

13. That is a generosity that has a time and occasion
Then it passes and expires and becomes evident

14. And the beseechers tested your generosity so the flowing
Generosity, all of it is an occasion and time