Sol 6.1

  1. They say, 'The two poets have died, yet you have not lamented,

    though the people of the two Easts have mourned them.'

  2. Nor did the two gatherings invite me to their appointed occasions,

    and of all companions, I have least need of their two invitations.

  3. Though the two friends left this world suddenly,

    they had already taken their shares of its bounty.

  4. And what they entrusted to their hands [probable reading] enriched them,

    and what they entrusted to their hearts made them precious.

  5. And at their two mourning assemblies they attained reverence

    to its fullest extent, as they had attained it at their two festivals.

  6. Mine are tears; through them I seek healing in their absence,

    when my bearers are slow to bring me to them.

  7. And I wished my death had come first,

    so I would not witness the two peers at their deaths.

  8. I kept faith with the living and the dead; equal are

    before me the cares of both sides alike.

Sol 6.1