1. Convey a message from me to Abu al-Jarud,

    which a walker carries to meet you, at evening or in the morning,

  2. so he may tell us why you have severed ties, after

    you were content, though you have changed no trait since.

  3. Is it because you gained good fortune I was glad for you to gain,

    that you grew hostile, until I said, “A tawny, maned lion”?

  4. For your eyes are his eyes, and your voice is his voice;

    you have assumed his likeness before me, except that you do not charge.

  5. So if you have indeed resolved to sever the ties between us,

    then signs of its beginning have already begun to appear.

  6. And I would, whenever a friend's bond grew threadbare,

    and he turned away from me, say, “A loss as welcome as rain!”

Sol 6.1