1. A fair and rosy concubine
May turn tomorrow black, if you wish, or yellow

2. She lives in luxury she never desired
While others, if seen, would abandon life

3. She crossed the vast desert, yet walked not
Nor sailed on it a boat or climbed its ridge

4. Clothed, her garment deflects not arrows
Bare, she feels neither heat nor cold

5. She begs until you loudly grant her hand
Though if you refuse, she counts poverty riches

6. And it pleases him that she
If she grows haughty, increases her dowry

7. It's permitted for him from her the unlawful
For a people unlike her kind, the sea