1. بَاتَ رَفِيقِي بِهَمِّ شَخْتٍ

    بِشَيْبَةٍ عَافَهَا الْعِيَانْ

    My companion spent the night with a frail man's cares,

    Over a gray hair the eye disdained.

  2. وَقُلْتُ مَا هَذِهِ الْبَوَادِي

    فَقَالَ لِي شِخْتَ يَافُلاَنْ

    And I said, "What are these first signs?"

    So he said to me, "You've grown old, O so-and-so!"