1. I've grown too old for reproach,
And the prime time has passed with youth.

2. I pardon your blame and reproach of me—
One like me is not chastened with censure.

3. I don't avert my eyes out of coyness,
Does one like me ever lack an answer?

4. Rather I'm a lad who wasted my life
On the sweetest drinking there can be.

5. With a slender, sword-like waist, cheap
As though his cheek beams a mirage.

6. I lined them up before me and took them together,
All stripped bare of their clothes.

7. May I be bereft of manners and etiquette if I don't
Establish an argument on Judgment Day.