الا ليت الزمان يعود يوما. ألا ليت الشباب يعود يومآ فأخبره بما فعل ____ من 6 حروف

' I just want to note that it's so eloquent in Arabic and so colourful because youthness is Shabab meaning the youth and grayness is Masheeb "God, tell us the reason, why youth is wasted on the young" Clearly implies the young do not know the value of what they have until much later in life
There's a similarity in the way it is pronounced and written Gives it an extra spice

كلمات اغنية الزمان

The lyrics to the song goes like this.

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And it causes them to yearn for the time which was wasted
ألا ليت الشباب يعود يومآ فأخبره بما فعل ____ من 6 حروف
Any idiom, proverb or piece of poetry suchlike? The phrase goes back much further; see The Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs Cf
المعجم
Maybe as english speakers, you can't see it but in Arabic it's extremely colourful
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A certain song comes to my mind Provide details and share your research! The question asks for an idiom via the idiom-requests tag and your suggestion is hardly idiomatic, and indeed introduces "tenuously" which is not in the original at all

كلمات اغنية الزمان

May not be as descriptive a prose as you expected.

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ألا ليت الشباب يعود يومآ فأخبره بما فعل ____ من 6 حروف

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ألا ليت الشباب يعود يومآ فأخبره بما فعل ____ من 6 حروف
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