مَنْ مُنْصِفي مِن مَعْشَرٍ ألبَستُهُم
مَدْحي وَظَنِّي أَنّهم كُبَراءُ
Who will win me justice against a company I clothed
in my panegyrics, believing them grandees?
قالوا وما فعلوا لِبُخلٍ فيهم
فكأنّهمْ كانوا همُ الشُّعراءُ
They spoke, but did not act on their word, out of their stinginess—
as though they themselves were the poets.
Sol 5.6