1. Speaking softly with recurring rhymes
Like the murmur of a brook over pebbles

2. Warbling in the reeds, her necklace seeming
A collar adorned with threaded gems

3. When sleep's kohl fades from her eyes
She calls you to the gazelle's kohl-lined cup

4. I filled for her the palm of dawn a flask
Gilded by the wind, silver fingernails

5. As if the dawn's whiteness were proof of a believer
Rising above the dark's proof of denial

6. As if the sun's rays when it rose
Burnished away the rust of darkness

7. Keep relishing what delights you for an hour
As long as you move not from sweat to journey

8. For human life is not pure joy throughout
Nor is its end different from its start