1. Will the crack of youth and its prime return to me,
And how can the night's coming back when its dawn has appeared?

2. Grey hair has draped your condition with its color,
And the long flow of time has spread it out.

3. With it I used to be the most happy, but grey hair made it sad.
Alas to white hair! No rolling back its deterioration.

4. O my good fortune, how good you were to me before this!
Thanks purely to you for your goodness to me.

5. It saw a house with me in the thickets of love,
But now its veil from my tears is upon my eye.

6. If my ruins still stand, then stop a while beside them
That I may cool a heart whose embers have grown hot,

7. And pour into it a drop of tears to change it
When the rain has sent down its drops generously.

8. I promised my heart that it would help me
When you betrayed me, and now its treachery is clear.

9. Love has shown from it a glowering betrayal,
So who can be excused after betraying me?

10. The drunkenness of love once seethed in its midst,
But I did not leave it there along with treachery and drunkenness.

11. I did not follow up your slips with blame,
Prodding you, though my words can slit like a blade,

12. But I showed them to you when you openly flaunted them -
Can the full moon conceal itself in a flimsy veil?