1. O guide of pearls between ink and paper
With their adornments necklaces have girded my neck

2. Those rhymes that like flowers have bloomed
Blossoming in splendid, brilliant attire on paths

3. From every maiden I met, radiant, she came forth
A cup with which I got drunk, and did not awaken

4. Extended by the black-hearted one whom she seduced
So that among her envious ones were those black of eye

5. A beloved whom the passionate heart clung to
Yet man was only created from a clot

6. The excellent descriptor gifted her with it
A past, like the flashing light, set forth

7. A youth who busied himself with literature
While the likes of him busied themselves with frivolity and waste

8. A heart, kindled by the fire of wisdom
Flowing with speech like pouring rain

9. And excellent for the youth is wisdom that adorns him
His judgment not lacking the Chapter of Daybreak

10. For the youth's perfection is not in white hair
Rather, the youth's perfection is in character