1. To a friend enamored of generosity, I said
While stinginess turns him from the attribute of generosity

2. Do not prolong fulfilling a need that has wearied its petitioner
With delay from you, so you would be blamed, not praised

3. It was as if I had smelled from him, when he turned away from me
With a chest closed tight, turned away from me

4. It was as if his limbs, for every act of generosity
Were being torn out, extracted piece by piece unwillingly