وذي إثرةٍ ما زال ينقص أكلهُ

من البخل حتى عاد خلواً من الداء

With a mark that keeps diminishing as it's eaten

By miserliness until it became empty of disease

وفارقتهُ مقدارَ عامٍ وزرتهُ

فما زاد شيئاً غير قفل على الماء

And I left him for a year and visited him

Yet nothing increased but a lock upon the water