صَبْرُ الفَتَى مُصِيبَتِهِ إذَا

صَبْرُ الفَتَى مُصِيبَتِهِ إذَا

نَزَلَتْ أَشَدُّ مُصيبَةً للشّامِتِ

نَزَلَتْ أَشَدُّ مُصيبَةً للشّامِتِ

A young man's patience with his calamity, when

A young man's patience in misfortune when

it befalls him, is a harsher calamity for the one who gloats.

It falls is more grievous to the gloating foe