1. Amazement takes me that your face is turned
Away from me, though yours is the face of grace.

2. Goodness you began with, and a house whose door
Is open to mankind, while yours is closed in place.

3. Do you not see that pleasantness is a shield
From the ill that suspicion and mistrust create?

4. An ornament to the wearer is a tongue
That speaks him fair, and eyes that scintillate.

5. A love dissembled and spread wide on the ground
Is to its thriving will and testament.

6. If you put on a face of darkness, still
Beneath it generosity and patience dwell.

7. So many a downpour from the clouds of reproof
Has rained, and yet wit flashes like a spell.