1. And what ails this age, that it folds my ribs

    around a sorrowful soul and a despondent heart?

  2. The days parcel me out as an unjust man would,

    between the bloom and pallor of their state.

  3. As though I were a lavish gift in the vizier's palm,

    dispensed through the bounty of an illustrious, lavish giver.

Sol 6.1