1. Is that kohl in your eyes or a type of kohl,
And roses on your cheeks or a flush of shyness?

2. A straight banana stalk when it bends over,
A palm tree trunk or a type of palm tree?

3. It reveals pearls from an agate mouth,
Sweet to kiss but forbidden.

4. I swear no garden by the rivers, when
Rained on by a passing cloud,

5. Has had its borders split by springtime hands after
Its orchards have been tasted by a drunk.

6. One day is lovelier than the rose of cheeks
On a slender waist, or a narcissus bud.

7. And someone says, “The winds have slipped away from us,
But the cycle of the winds has not slipped away."

8. How sweet is love if multitudes of censors were not there,
And the delight of life if swift death were not its fate!