1. He weeps for what time has changed anew
In people, though time cannot be blamed

2. His head's white hair makes it seem
After black hair, like transformed wool

3. And a foolish woman assailed me with magic
Ignorantly blaming me and impudently complaining

4. So I answered her saying I cannot be coerced
Leave your preaching, it will not be accepted

5. It is enough that I endure a journey
Of a lifetime and the prophecy of a miserly jealous one

6. Whose dawn boasts will be, when time changes,
Generalities, though he descends polished and angry

7. Men show reverence when his greatness appears
Fearing disaster, the slender ones are his lovers

8. So they see he has a chapter over them
And a virtue preceding him, not unknown

9. Bearing the weight of affairs, preceded in nobility
By a deliberate pioneer, poised and patient

10. And when Quraysh are mentioned, he has
The glory of leadership and the finest deeds

11. In Mecca, when Umayyah are its people
An inheritance, if the old is enumerated

12. His kinship enriched him, and his adherence
Was wise, as the reasonable person knows

13. I transcended their morals, so I left them
To your blame, for the judicious one changes

14. And indeed I began wanting the love of friends
And the keeping of appointments that were not kept when fulfilled

15. Until certainty returned my hopes to despair
And those I hoped for disappointed me