1. A gentle temperament and a slender body
And a kind heart and lightweight shadow

2. Playful words and a glancing look and dress
Reasonable mind and judicious opinion

3. Thus you were created, so you were as
The youthful breeze and the chaste conscience willed

4. You never approved of anything but genuine beauty
Nor any nature but the most congenial and intimate

5. On a full moonlit night, its air purified
And the faint stillness whispered confidentialities

6. The shadows of the sand dunes threw unto attentive hearts
That with tender affections are ever restless

7. And upon the Nile was poured the semblance of swords
Illuminating the gloom, its weak blade shimmering

8. So we made it ripple, then laugh
And flow with us in gentle play

9. I saw you a charmer of minds
Revealing longing in the smile of an affectionate elder

10. Aspiration and meanings that beauty refused
To be seen in the form of dense dust

11. So the moon imagined it a spirit that appeared
In the distance, in a dress of thin fabrics

12. Appearing and disappearing as if the rays
Now deceit, and now sincerity

13. Thus a ray casts itself purely upon it
And another withdraws the purity from it