Sol 6.1

  1. By your life, Marsu‘ of Mujalid’s clan,

    You certainly mangled your reply to me the day we met.

  2. You tell me that I am old, and indeed I am

    Old—but what has turned your hair gray?

  3. Is it old age? For gray hair is a young man’s eventual lot—

    So tell us—or was it sorcery that struck you?

  4. By my life, you have indeed married her to a kinsman,

    Blameless and noble, hating what aroused your suspicions.

  5. And I was told he gifted a fat camel for slaughter;

    He would have completed the gifts had he renewed your clothes.

Sol 6.1