1. In youth I failed to gain what in old age
I extracted from the mines of poetry.
١. لَمْ أَنَلْ في الشَّبابِ ما نِلْتُهُ عِن
دَ مَشيبي من افتِراعِ المعاني
2. Every maiden poem I plucked in the days
Of early manhood - would that it were now!
٢. كُلُّ بِكْرٍ ما افتضَّها مِن فُحولِ الشَّ
عْرِ عِندِي يَالَيتَ ذا في الغَواني