إِذا رُزِقَ الفَتى وَجهاً وَقاحاً

تَقَلَّبَ في الأُمورِ كَما يَشاءُ

When the youth is endowed with impudence

He does as he pleases in all matters

وَلَم يَكُ لِلدَواءِ وَلا لِشَيءٍ

يُعالِجُهُ بِهِ عَنهُ غَناءُ

Nothing can cure him, nothing avails

To make him refrain, to wean him away

وَرُبَّ قَبيحَةٍ ما حالَ بَيني

وَبَينَ رُكوبِها إِلّا الحَياءُ

Full many a woman I fain had enjoyed

But that modesty barred me the way

وَكانَ هُوَ الَّذي أَلهى وَلكِن

إِذا ذَهَبَ الحَياءُ فَلا دَواءُ

He it was that led me astray, but then

When modesty's gone there's no cure, none can say