1. In old age there is reproach, if only he would heed reproach,
And admonition from it, were it not that he is stone.
١. في الشيبِ زَجرٌ لَهُ لَو كانَ يَنزجِرُ
وَبالِغٌ منه لَولا أَنَّهُ حَجَرُ
2. My temples turned white and red from his cheeks, and
The bright morning returned that had missed the dawn.
٢. إِبيضَّ واحمرَّ مِن فَوديهِ واِرتَجعَت
جليّةُ الصبحِ ما قَد أَغفلَ السحرُ
3. And the youth has ample scope in love
Unless the hair starts falling from the regions of his head.
٣. وَللفتى مُهلةٌ في الحبِّ واسِعَةٌ
ما لَم يَمت في نَواحي رأسِهِ الشعرُ
4. "Grey hair and love?" she said; "You have wandered between them!"
"That is a sin in that not to be forgiven!"
٤. قالَت مَشيبٌ وَعشقٌ رحتَ بينهما
وَذاكَ في ذاكَ ذَنَبٌ لَيسَ يُغتَفَرُ