1. The harbingers of the festival have come near,
Bringing good tidings of the excellence of time,

2. And gifts in the festival were anciently
And lately, of the customs of the village chief,

3. And I pondered on the gifts and what
Thought roused of subtle meanings,

4. What thing shall I give to the best thing
Beauty and benevolence were paired in it?

5. So I saw that things fell short of the as-
pect, unless there appeared in it something of my gifts.

6. So I sent that in which may be seen in it
All that is not seen in the garden,

7. With a mirror unto a mirror, beauty
Exchanged between it and it, two mirrors,

8. Sister of the sun of morning in form and brightness,
Not closing the eyelids for sleep,

9. Lustrous in polish, its excellence in mirrors
Is the excellence of your minds over minds,

10. Traced in it the shape of the circle exactly
And proportionately Euclid the Greek described it,

11. Of a collar shining with chrysolite
In which the colour of sulphur was made to flow,

12. So it is as the halo encompassing the full moon
For a sixth [day] after eight have passed.

13. Inherited from crowned kings, and it reached
Us by the succession of times,

14. And on its back chargers that sport
With coats of mail galloping on colts

15. For you in it, when you observe, a beauty
Informing of the excellence of noble wishes,

16. Persian in its fitness, except that
It is in the position of a Yemeni agate,

17. Traced on it is the figure of Chosroes as if he
Were pictured on the crown,

18. And it shows you the place in it, and if you were
To see it and others in place,

19. Before it there was not in water a body
Besieging itself without time,

20. Its reflection amended by rays so its beginning
To it and its return are equal,

21. It is a world in which I took good omen
Except that it is a privacy from sorrows,

22. It is a sun, so if your image one day
Appeared in it, you are two suns,

23. Wherever it met your image in any
Land, therein the two fires encountered,

24. So cast it away from you by that which no
Fearful one has seen and then recoiled without safety,

25. And bestow prayers on the Chosen One, for the excellence
Of eyes may be known by entities.