1. They spoke truly, for they saw the rose hedge -
Did they see it in a splendor of violet?

2. People love, but not like the one
I desired with passion; look and take joy!

3. Who saw a full moon, a branch, a sapling
Radiant, swaying, freely dancing?

4. His face is a copy of beauty inscribed
With a line of down that can be brushed.

5. One with a wrap like my restless heart
And a skirt that pains my bosom to part,

6. Deaf but whose ears were opened
By curves through which an obtuse is freed.

7. One said, "Is this poetry for you or a pearl?"
Saying it's finer than pearls and more fair.

8. I said, "The crown of religion is his description."
He said, "This is the king of eminent poetry."