مصارع ابناء الهوى جمع عاشقٍ
تجرع من راح الهوى ما تجرعا
The deaths of passion’s sons a lover compiled—
he drank of passion’s wine—how deeply he drank!
فلما رأى الفودين قد حل فيهما ال
مشيب منيحاً والمفارق اقلعا
Then, when he saw that on his two temples there had settled
gray age, making him lament and stripping his hair-partings bare,
وأضحى مصيخاً للنذير الذي علا
مفارقه ينعى الشباب المودعا
he began to heed the warning that rose
over his hair-partings, announcing the death of youth bidden farewell.
Sol 5.6