يا حسنَ ثوبٍ للدُّجى مشابهُ

كأنما فصلَ من إهابهْ

O beauty of clothing alike to darkness

As though it were made in its obscurity

يحسرُ الشيخُ على شبابه

أزهى بهِ وكنتُ لا أزهى بهْ

The old man laments his youth

It blossomed with him yet I did not blossom with it

كأنني المليكُ في أصحابهْ

منذُ رأيت الناس من طلابهْ

As though I were a king among his companions

Since I saw people among his students

وكلهم من جاهلٍ ونابه

يرونَ قدرَ المرءِ في ثيابهْ

Yet all of them from an ignorant and remorseful man

They see the value of a man in his clothes