1. أَلَيسَ عَجيباً بِأَنَّ الفَتى

    يُصابُ بِبَعضِ الَّذي في يَدَيهِ

    Is it not strange that a young man

    suffers the loss of some of what is in his hands,

  2. فَمِن بَينِ باكٍ لَهُ موجعٍ

    وَبَينَ مُعَزٍّ مُغِذٍّ إِلَيهِ

    and has one weeping for him in anguish

    and another hastening to him with consolation,

  3. وَيَسلُبُهُ الشَيبُ شَرخَ الشَبابِ

    فَلَيسَ يُعزّيهِ خَلقٌ عَلَيهِ

    yet gray hair robs him of the bloom of youth,

    and not a soul consoles him for it?