1. From lack of good sense when admonished you refuse
And from days you expect blame

2. Leave people to their own affairs
And live your age doubtful of men

3. Youth has departed, of it we know no news
Nor have we seen a trace left behind

4. And the rod is right if it brings us to a land
Where youth is the Indian aloes wood staffs

5. The elder has pawned the shirt of ripeness to decay
Then donned the shirt of old age patched

6. He still defers his repentance throughout his life
Until death came to him and he did not repent

7. A line of evenness appeared from a wondrous dot
That effaced lines, pens and writers