أرى بَقَر الإنس مِنِّي تُرا

عُ أطْيَشَ ما كنتُ عنها سهاما

I see the cows of mankind are afraid of me,

though I was not shooting arrows at them.

وأنَّي تَفَرَّعَ رأْسِي المشيبُ

ولم أتفرَّعْ ثلاثين عاما

And that the gray hairs have branched out on my head,

yet thirty years I have not branched out.