رأيته بعد حينٍ من ملاحته

رأيته بعد حينٍ من ملاحته

وقد محا الله منه رونقَ الخفرِ

وقد محا الله منه رونقَ الخفرِ

I saw him some time after his days of loveliness,

I saw him after a while since I last saw him

And God had erased from him the luster of bashfulness.

God had erased from him the grace of youth

وعفش الحسن ذاك الوجه حين خبا

وعفش الحسن ذاك الوجه حين خبا

ديباج خديه في مسحٍ من الشعر

ديباج خديه في مسحٍ من الشعر

And beauty stripped that face when there faded

And the beauty of that face had grown disorderly when it withered

The brocade of his cheeks beneath a sackcloth of hair.

The damask of his cheeks in a stroke of white hair