لا تَعْجَبَنَّ لدَهرٍ ظَلَّ في صَبَبٍ

أشرافُهُ وعَلا في أوجِهِ السَّفِلُ

Do not wonder at Time, though it stays long in youth,

And its honored summit towers high above the mean.

وانقَدْ لأحكامِه أنَّى يُقادُ بِها

فالمُشتري السَّعْدُ عالٍ فوقَهُ زُحَلُ

Be resigned to the changes of its turning spheres;

He who would buy fortune must scale the heights of stars.