1. And one who had a trick for gray hair kept applying
Dye to it time and again, plucking away;
١. وَذي حيلَةٍ في الشَيبِ ظَلَّ يَحوطُهُ
فَيَخضِبُهُ طَوراً وَطَوراً يُنَتِّفُ
2. but no clever trick for gray hair was more elegant
against the ravages of time than the trick of gray hair itself.
٢. وَما لَطُفَت لِلشَيبِ حيلَةُ عالِمٍ
عَلى الدَهرِ إِلّا حيلَةُ الشَيبِ أَلطَفُ