Sol 5.6

  1. Old age has plainly shown on me,

    and fortune’s changes have changed me.

  2. Whoever looks at me is bewildered

    and says, “Is this ʿUmar?”

  3. Where is my graceful swaying, like a

    supple bough, when I used to strut?

  4. And where is what they said in my youth:

    “By God, what a man!”

  5. My back has curved into a bow, and I have

    no bowstring but my staff.

  6. Nor have I, among beautiful

    women today, a share worth mentioning.

Sol 5.6