1. He saw the down growing on his cheeks
So he turned away from me to work

2. And said, I have become a man, my boy
And this is ugly that I see in a man

3. What was is what was in my youth, so do not
Reproach one like me and plunge into blaming me

4. So I said, O you whose cheeks have sprouted hair
Now, by God, you are ripe for work

5. This is saffron and the place of its growth is the musk
Under your beard on your cheek

6. If you had dyed from old age
And magic had removed your eyes from you

7. You would have been patient with the sting of your cheeks and the
Sucking of a lip like honey

8. Alas! Alas! Then he recoiled in embarrassment
Knocking his teeth from shame

9. And I got up hastily to him
While my heart was anxious and alarmed

10. Until we embraced on the mattress and my
Ardent falcon plunged into the armpit