1. يقول الفكر لي دنست ثوب الش

    شباب وفي غداة الشيب تتعب

    Thought says to me: You have stained the garment of

    youth, and at the dawn of gray hair you toil,

  2. وتغسله بدمعك كل وقتٍ

    وما ينقى لأن الطبع أغلب

    and wash it with your tears at every moment,

    yet it does not come clean, for innate nature is stronger.