يودُّ الفتى طولَ تعميرهِ

ولا مُتناهيَ إلا قصيرُ

The young man longs for his life to be prolonged,

yet nothing finite is anything but brief.

كما أن كان بَديءُ الفتى

كذاك إلى كان أيضاً يصير

As the youth was at his first beginning,

so too he becomes what once he was.