ولو شئتُ راهنتُ الصَّبابَةَ والهَوى

وأَجريتُ في اللَّذَّاتِ مِن مِئتينِ

Had I wished, I would have challenged passionate longing and love to a wager,

and, even at two hundred, set [them] racing through delights;

وأسبلتُ من ثوبِ الشَّباب وللصَّبا

عليَّ رداءٌ مُعْلمُ الطَّرفينِ

and from passion’s garment—youth’s own—I would have let fall

over me a robe adorned at both ends.