1. Youth passed, and it was pleasurable and fine
After it, pleasure is impossible to find

2. And gray hair calls a man to journey on
Gray hair descended upon my head and said

3. Rise, prepare provisions and saddle the stead
For when gray hair descends upon a man

4. It's a sign indicating the nearing end
And a warner to one whose time's at hand

5. Gray hair's a sun now set and sunk from sight
After sunrise comes naught but decline and night