1. Shall I abandon Khalid if he said dirhams
His visit I would then be ignoble

2. And a noble man may feign to be kind
And a man's money runs low though he's noble

3. A lad of Wāsiṭ is ibn Nizar beloved
To ibn Nizar among fiances bountiful

4. Would that in his wealth for us were Khalid
And to Bakr in riches were Tameem

5. Then among us would be a slow pace-setter
And in Bakr a beast heavy and dull