1. لَقَد أَصبَحَ البيضُ الغَواني كَأَنَّما

    يَرَينَ إِذا ما كُنتُ فيهِنَّ أَجرَبا

    Indeed, the fair-skinned beauties now seem as though

    they see a mangy man whenever I am among them.

  2. وَكُنتُ إِذا لاقَيتُهُنَّ بِبَلدَةٍ

    يَقُلنَ عَلى النِكراءِ أَهلاً وَمرحَبا

    And once, whenever I met them in a town,

    they would say, though I was a stranger, “Welcome, welcome!”

  3. وَلَستُ بِشَيخٍ قَد تَوَجَّه دالِفٍ

    وَلَكِن فَتىً مِن صالِحِ القَومِ عقّبا

    Nor am I a shuffling old man, far advanced in years,

    but a young man of good stock among the people.