لَمّا اِكتَسى خَدُّهُ وَقُلتُ لَهُ

كُلُ حَياةٍ عَقيبُها تَلَفُ

When his cheek grew wrinkled, and I said to him,

"Every life in the end decays,"

رَأى أَخاهُ بِعَينِ مَعذِرَةٍ

وَقالَ ما ماتَ مَن لَهُ خَلَفُ

He looked at me with forgiving eyes,

And said, "He who leaves heirs never dies."