1. للّهِ دَرِّيْ في الشّبِي

    بَةِ مِنْ أَخي لَهْوٍ أَرِيبِ

    How fine I was in youth—

    a clever companion of revelry!

  2. أَيّامَ يَحْمِلُني الشّبا

    بُ على التّهاوُنِ في الذُّنُوبِ

    In the days when youth carried me

    toward taking sins lightly.