Sol 5.6

  1. The testimony of black hair cannot avail

    at all, when the skin itself is called as witness.

  2. Does one who blackens his hair hope to be vouched for

    by the witness of his swagger? Where has the man of sense gone?

  3. No, by my life: to discerning eyes, hair dye has

    only discredit and condemnation.

  4. It claims for the old man the very bloom of youth,

    though dark Time has carried that youth away.

  5. And dyed blackness is all the more deserving of disbelief

    when true blackness itself gives it the lie.

Sol 5.6