يا أَيُّها الرجلُ المُسَوِّدُ شيبَهُ

كيما يُعَدُّ بهِ من الشُّبانِ

O man who blackens your gray hair,

so that by it you may be reckoned among the young,

أقصِرْ فلوْ سوَّدْتَ كل حمامةٍ

بيضاءَ ما عُدَّتْ من الغِرْبان

desist—for even if you blackened every dove,

white though it was, it would not be reckoned among the ravens.