1. Alas! For the path of love holds a smooth resting place
For this cunning fox at dawn, from him eluding

2. He tends the stars of night innocently, and his habit
Is to form wishes from the era of union

3. His plaint called having lost his loved ones and youth
So blame holds no place in his tearful eyes

4. My loved ones preoccupy me in my days with my youth
While my greying and the people of blame are free

5. How much blame and greying punish love
A lover, while the lover's patience is tested

6. I dyed my greying hair hoping for youth’s return
Yet from it no call or deliverance comes

7. So go the thoughts of grey hair when they travel
And in some of their vessels is dye

8. Leave sin after forty, though many
Of the righteous called, but the sinners strayed

9. The lofty one made the fallen fall
Like pure legendary water when it came

10. Blessed is he who protected the sublime by his sublimity
When the masters intended and plotted

11. Every seller of her glory bent praising
As if his praise in the ode spread

12. And the times are many and dense
Yet behold them like beautiful eggs emptied

13. The brother of virtue and words he said and taught
So the praisers listened and crafted

14. And the judge of Syria’s judges, repute and dew
With freshness, understanding and wisdom he sold

15. For every valley of dew from him a smile flows
And in every alive quarter for feats a pot boils

16. From the elite group, their successor almost
Said to the composer of praises, “Take heed!”

17. As if the sublime were a person for them
From whom they intensely sought

18. And among the people a leader for the sublime and a chief
My lord, take them with embellished verse

19. Upon the faces of the rivals - that is a rebuttal
Speech is but as mankind, varied