1. وَحقّكَ ما خَضَبتُ مَشِيبَ رأسي

    رجاءَ أنْ يْدومَ ليَ الشَّبابُ

    By your honor, I did not dye the gray hair of my head

    In the hope that youth would endure for me;

  2. ولكنّي خَشيتُ يُرادُ مِنّي

    عُقولٌ ذوي المَشيبِ فلا تُصابُ

    But I feared they would look to me for

    The wisdom of the gray-haired, and fail to find it.