1. With the polish of youth's blade its edge
Frail, though wasps throng on angry steel

2. He walks leisurely, and sometimes
Exuberance transports him, and youth

3. Of varied charms the brightness a veil
Upon it always, and for shyness a screen

4. In his sleeves for the youths a spring
From his shirt it had bared an illusion

5. He crossed the gulf swimming, as though
A meteor plunged with him through heaven

6. Foam rises there for his diving, and
A thousand breakers surge and heave

7. And if I left in the good-byes a ship
For each stage will bring passengers back

8. I had gained on its banks which shake me
With thrill - youth, wine that thrilled me and sipped

9. And a river flowed in me and a boat
So scorpions bore me and bubbles of love

10. And I rode its Tigris, laughing with
A lover provoking me, and tenderness

11. We slipped from the world, between us a bride
Fair sipping, and wine flowing red

12. Then I left, and for the sky a glow
Rosy staining, and darkness a dye

13. My friends' cloaks twist, and youths
And night, below the ardent, a veil

14. Where the bridge rose over boats
Ranged as lovers stand in line

15. None outsped, as if arrayed
Rival steeds contention's war

16. Of each far tent, if it were
Rent already, from it a raven fled