Sol 6.1

  1. قَالُوا وقد ضَاعَتْ جَميعُ مَصَالحي

    لِهمُومِ نَفْسٍ ليتَ لا حُمِّلتُها

    They said, when all my interests had been lost

    Through worries of the soul—would that I had not been made to bear them—

  2. قَدْ كانَ عِنْدَكَ يَا فُلانُ صَرِيمةٌ

    فَأَجَبَتْهُمْ بِعْتُ الحِمارَ وَبِعْتُها

    “You once had resolve, so-and-so.”

    So I answered them: “I sold the donkey, and sold it too.”