Mistrust - Baha ad-Din Zuhayr

Trusty friends are very rare,
Ne’er rely on any one:
Those are freest far from care.
Who have made a friend of none.

Ne’er a comrade have I found,
One with whom I might consort;
Yet I’ve often looked around;
And I’ve tested every sort

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Baha al-Din Zuhayr [aka Behá-ed-Dín Zoheir, Abu al-Fadl Zuhayr ibn Muhammad al-Muhallabi] (1186 – 1258) Egypt (born in Saudi Arabia)
Translated by E.H. Palmer
Source: The Poetical Works Of Behá-ed-Dín Zoheir Of Egypt  Vol. II, by E.H. Palmer, Cambridge University Press, 1877