When it jogs your shifting sand on.

Hafiz, though a tinge of grey

Shames the locks that once were sable,

Drink and laugh the world away,

Swear that eld’s a housewife’s fable;

Vow that youth is always yours

While the graceful gait allures,

While the perfume haunts the rose,

While a ruddy balsam flows

From the flagon on the table.