نال أخي من جودكم راتبٌ

حديثه في الناس أسمارُ

My brother gained from your generosity a salary

His talk amongst people, a night conversation

فانهزم الفقر وولى به

لأنه في القلب بتارُ

So poverty was defeated and turned away from him

For it, in his heart, a humiliation