1. I see the cows of mankind are afraid of me,
though I was not shooting arrows at them.
١. أرى بَقَر الإنس مِنِّي تُرا
عُ أطْيَشَ ما كنتُ عنها سهاما
2. And that the gray hairs have branched out on my head,
yet thirty years I have not branched out.
٢. وأنَّي تَفَرَّعَ رأْسِي المشيبُ
ولم أتفرَّعْ ثلاثين عاما