1. By your life! Death did not spare
The morning it struck the eye awake
١. لَعَمرُكَ ما أَبقى لَنا المَوتُ باقِياً
نَقَرَّ بِهِ عَيناً غَداةَ نَأوبُ
2. As if I had bargained with death for a son
When decrepitude and gray hair beckoned
٢. كَأَنّي وَتَرتُ المَوتَ بِابنٍ أَفادَهُ
عَلى حينَ حانَت كَبرَةٌ وَمَشيبُ