1. They said, "Your beloved has a mustache,"
So I kept swearing them down.

2. And I said to them, "Nay, it's a new moon that has appeared,
Shining brightly between the cheeks," and their nonsense increased.

3. So they said, "Why is your crescent then so fuzzy?
No crescent like this has ever been known."

4. I said, "It's in the nature of the crescent,
That when next to the sun, it should be eclipsed."