1. I stayed as ʿAmr’s guest; he came to me with a loaf—

    Eating it only added hunger to my hunger.

  2. Then he turned away, saying in dejection:

    “Alas for me—that I should lose the loaf!”

  3. He was a master at deceiving guests; yet

    Sometimes the deceiver ends up deceived.

  4. I had accorded him an exalted station,

    But that exalted man became base.

  5. How strange of him: when his guarded preserve was laid open,

    How did he fail to hold out, though he was impregnable?

Sol 5.6