1. Youth has departed, never to return,
And the ties that bound me were severed.
١. ذهب الشباب فما له مردود
وتقطعت حطم به وقيود
2. Your hair took on a silvery sheen
Whose raven hue was lost.
٢. وعلاك من سمة المشيب ملاءةً
شهباء لون سوادها مفقود
3. The daughter of Banu Dhubaybah called you “uncle”—
A kinship to your age of splendor long ago.
٣. ودعتك أخت بني ضبيبة عمها
نسبٌ لعمرك ملء حسان بعيد