1. وقائلة لي بعد ما شابَ مفرقي

    وفكري في تيه الشبيبة يرتع

    A woman said to me, after the parting of my hair had turned gray,

    While my mind grazed in the wilderness of youth:

  2. أترجع عن لهو الصبا بملامةٍ

    فقلت ولا والله بالشيب أرجع

    “Will you turn away from youthful revelry at a rebuke?”

    So I said, “No, by God—not even gray hair will turn me away.”