1. For the days of your life, you are fashioned from illustrious folk,
You would have resented me, the day we met, for my response.

2. You tell me that I'm old, and indeed I am,
Old, but what misfortune made you this way?

3. If from aging - graying is the destiny of youth -
So tell us, was it pure or evil that afflicted you?

4. By my life! You married her, a kinswoman,
Secretly, forcibly, though it did not please you.

5. And I was told you gifted plump camels,
Perfect gifts - if only he could find your clothes!