Sol 5.6

  1. The best of your brothers is the one who shares bitter hard—

    —ships. And where is a partner in adversity—where?

  2. The one who, when you are present, delights you within the commu—

    —nity, and when you are absent, serves as your ear and eye.

  3. Like the purest ruby: if fi—

    —re touches it, ordeal burnishes it, and it grows lovelier.

  4. You are among a company who, whenever you are absent from them,

    turn everything that adorns you into a blemish.

  5. Yet whenever they see you, they all declare,

    “To us, you are among the noblest of men.”

  6. I see no genuine affection among humankind;

    all humankind has become falsehood and lies.

Sol 5.6