1. The glory of gray hair has come down
And the intimacy of youth has departed

2. One friend has folded another friend
Thus is the changing of fortunes

3. Youth is as if it had never been
And old age as if it had never ceased

4. As if the temples of youth
Had not blazed against white hair

5. Its hopes a promising sapling
Which fate had cut down

6. My reproaches, be brief
Gray hair and decline are enough

7. He has substituted for youth
If only youth could substitute for him

8. Majesty but it is
Veiled by the bashfulness of the eyelids