1. Five beauties glanced at me with gentleness
Maidens with gazelle eyes, delicate as flowers

2. I approached them as they walked, while
The guard slept and the eagle circled

3. Hiding in the thicket, they were startled
Angrily brandishing his staff, a guard appeared

4. They spent the night gracefully reclining
Then awoke at dawn

5. With the sweetest honeyed smile that dimmed
The radiance of youth, their gowns flowing

6. A far famed charmer, renowned
The night revealed to him its secrets

7. She came up to converse with him, swaying coquettishly
Walking gently, a chaste maiden

8. They conversed intimately beyond their companions
With words that delighted, as if it were magic

9. Each saw that youth was theirs
In every impulse of passionate youth, an excuse

10. A coyness, the most alluring of youthful charms
Untouched by time, radiant

11. Until he revealed his love for her
And her love for him was uncovered, no more concealed

12. She traveled, though not to get acquainted
With a face more lovely than the full moon