1. Their faces shone like the sun and moon
O friend, if you wish, here is my news

2. I am in the capital of civilization and culture
Delighting my eyes not with pearls or maidens

3. But with what the mind of mankind has created
I am in London and Paris, if only they

4. Had pity on a youth enthralled by their beauty
And say, if you wish to describe them revealingly

5. London and Paris are equal, between them
In taste there is difference, reality is not like descriptions

6. If you do not visit them, descriptions do not do justice
And all that is said in descriptions, the best of them

7. Is the saying of the intimate friend of rhymes, the most infatuating
The abode is an abode, and the maidens with beautiful eyes live there

8. And people are people, coral is not like stone
My heart's longing for them cannot be reached

9. By any longing except the longing for one's homeland
I said to my portrait, so that it may convey to them

10. O portrait, live in places that nothing resembles them
London and Paris, while the world spreads stories