وَما صاحِبُ السَبعينَ وَالعَشرِ بَعدَها

بِأَقرَبَ مِمَّن حَنَّكَتهُ القَوابِلُ

The owner of seventy and the decade has not passed

Is not closer than one shaped by fate

وَلَكِنَّ آمالاً يُؤَمِّلُها الفَتى

وَفيهِنَّ لِلراجينَ حَقٌّ وَباطِلُ

But a young man hopes for aspirations

Among them for the hopeful is truth and falsehood