كم طمع لما اقتضاه الفتى

أزرى وما شد له أزرا

How much ambition when the youth demands

I help though he has not helped me

ما حملت نفسٌ جنين المنى

في الحرص إلا وضعت قدرا

No soul conceived the unborn wish

With greed except to meet its fate