1. He kept watering gardens and orchards
What marvelous gardens and orchards!

2. The winds blew gently between them
As pear trees sway next to each other

3. And branches whisper secrets
While birds announce out loud

4. The whispers of branches like muted laments
The calls of birds like songs

5. Of vineyards, their clusters bending
Like the curls of Africans and Abyssinians

6. Other vineyards swaying
Like the faces of alluring gazelles

7. Tendrils clasping onto tendrils
And vines entwining with vines

8. They are like stars amid the vineyard’s branches
And like suns in the cores of fruit