قولوا لمَنْ غيَّرَهُ منصبٌ

مَنْ أهملَ الأصحابَ عادوا عِدى

Tell those whom high office has changed

That when you neglect friends, they turn hostile

أما سليمانُ على ملكِهِ

قدْ قالَ ما لي لا أرى الهُدْهُدا

Yet Solomon, though a king

Once said, "Where is the hoopoe? I see him not."