بنو الدنيا تعوقهم الاماني
عن التفكيى يوما في المنايا
The children of this world are held back by their hopes
from thinking, even for a day, of death;
فلو وافتهم من بعد دهر
لقالوا بئس فاجئة الرزايا
and if death came upon them after an age,
they would say, “How terrible—the sudden onslaught of calamities!”
Sol 5.6