When becoming forty years old and age has made your eyebrows wrinkle
and your body is showing other signs of aging
your youth that was once showing and people once admired you for
will be worth very little
And then when you are asked "where did your beauty go"
and where are all the treasures of your passionate days
You must say with your own sunken eyes
We are all consuming shame and unprofitable praise
If you would have put your beauty to good work
If you could only answer this my child
settle my accounts and justify my old age
Proving that this beauty was once yours
this child would be new when you were old
and you would see your very own blood run in him when you are cold.
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