1. Tell Ibn Harb: your mantle has indeed

    sapped my strength through so much expense.

  2. Plain in it to anyone who sees it

    are traces of darning by the earliest peoples.

  3. So it is like the wine described

    in 'O brother of the soul, from Hakam.'

  4. And whenever we mend it and are told,

    'It is sound now,' decay tells it, 'Collapse!'

  5. Like a sick man who recovered, then was revisited by

    a relapse that delivered him back to sickness.

  6. I recited when it grew unruly and defeated me:

    'And among useful pursuits is training the decrepit.'

Sol 6.1