1. I delighted in the days of youth and their pleasures,

    and for an age found companionship among young maidens.

  2. Then, when I saw gray hair smiling with laughter,

    I wept, putting streaming eyes to shame.

  3. I said: Tomorrow my fire-stick, with my grayness, will lie quenched,

    though once I saw it kindle even snow into flame.

  4. So imagine there is quenching in the tears I have shed—

    yet in my tears, which consuming passion has served forth, there is no quenching.

Sol 5.6