إذا ما أجَلْتَ الفِكْرَ في مَطلبٍ فَلَمْ

تجدْ حِيْلَةً فِيْهِ فَذَرْهُ بحالِهِ

If you turn your thought upon some quest, yet still

find no way to it, then leave it as it stands.

فَلِلْيأْسِ عن إدراكِ ما عَزَّ نَيْلُهُ

عَلى القلبِ بَرْدٌ مثلُ بَرْدِ مَنالِهِ

For despair of attaining what is hard to gain

cools the heart like the coolness of attaining it.