1. أناخَ الشَيبُ ضَيفا لَم أُرِدهُ

    وَلكِن لا أُطيقُ لَهُ مَرَدّا

    Gray hair settled as a guest I did not want.

    And yet I cannot turn it away.

  2. رِداءٌ لِلرَدى فيهِ دَليلٌ

    تَرَدّى مَن بِهِ يَوماً تَرَدّى

    A cloak bearing a sign of death:

    He who one day cloaked himself in it perished.