دَعْني فإنَّ غَريمَ العَقلِ لازَمَني

وذا زَمانُكَ فامْرَحْ فيهِ لا زَمَني

Let me be, for madness has stuck with me

And this is your time, so enjoy it, let it not stick with me

ولَّى الشَّبابُ بِما أحْبَبْتُ مِنْ مِنَحٍ

والشَّيْبُ وافى بَما أبغَضْتُ مِنْ مِحَنِ

Youth has passed with what I loved of pleasures

And old age has come with what I hated of tribulations

فما كرهْتُ ثَوى عِندي وعنَّفَني

وما حرِصْتُ علَيهِ مُنْذُ عَنَّ فَنِي

So what I disliked has lodged with me and reproached me

And what I coveted has since evaded me