1. My excuse is a rosy cheek and a garden of roses
That remained thanking the horizon at dawn

2. I saw his ephemeral cheek and his cheek
Like the dawn shimmering with its ruby glow

3. His pearly smile appeared to me in a moment
As the blush adorned the cheek with perspiration

4. The garden of beauty on his cheeks flourishing
With waters rippling, not stolen or pilfered

5. Protect your glance from him, in his glances
Where the fresh narcissus blossoms stare

6. Marvel at my complexion and pearls in his mouth
Of dazzling yellow or of purest white

7. When he smiles one day, I’d say the sun
Of day has risen with the stars of dusk shining

8. I embraced him with his tresses undone
A curtain spreading its fringes to the horizon

9. When I inhaled the basil scent of his cheek
A diffusion that scents every breather

10. I wiped the traces of my kiss stealthily with my hand
Until it was perfumed with its fragrant spread

11. Oh you who left me there intoxicated, sustained by him
A drunkenness like the myrtle’s waking from slumber

12. And raised above all lovers a status
That none before had ever attained

13. Go easy on the heartsick lovers, for you
Have mounted them, layer upon layer, on the earth

14. My soul is ransom for arrows unleashed from you
Which the solidity of mail and shields did not avail

15. And a cheek that ignited the fires of passion, so one
It touched, none but the inflamed escaped

16. You appear to us in the blood of lovers in robes
As the sword appears reddened from the shedding

17. And a figure soft as the branch of acacia
Appearing arousing the tender leaves

18. Willowy, no matter how the waters of youth flow in her
The waters flee while the branch sways

19. The branches pass by her as she remains downcast
While the birds twitter deliriously and fervently