1. وَلي طَيلَسانٌ إِن تَأَمَّلتَ شَخصَهُ

    تَيَقَّنتَ أَنَّ الدَهرَ يَفني وَيَنقَرِض

    And I have a taylasan cloak: if you examined its form,

    You would be certain that time itself perishes and comes to an end.

  2. تَصَدَّعَ حَتّى قَد أَمِنتُ اِنصِداعَهُ

    وَأَظهَرَتِ الأَيّامُ مِن عُمرِهِ الغَرَض

    It has split so much that I fear no further splitting,

    And the days have shown their weariness of its long life.

  3. كَأَنّي لِإِشفاقي عَلَيهِ مُمَرِّضُ

    أَخو سَقَمٍ مِمَّن تَمادى بِهِ المَرَض

    As though, in my concern for it, I were a nurse

    To an ailing man whose illness has dragged on.

  4. فَلَو أَنَّ أَصحابَ الكَلامِ يَرَونَهُ

    لَمارَوكَ فيهِ وَاِدَّعوا أَنَّهُ عَرَض

    So if the scholastic theologians saw it,

    They would dispute with you about it and claim it was an accident.