1. They said, as the down has grown on his cheek,
Turn away from loving him and his true affection.

2. Yet do you not see him, his color turned saffron,
After redness that is illuminated by its embers?

3. The violet drank from the garden of his cheek
What it was not formerly watered with from his roses.

4. So I answered the heedless ones with a truthful saying,
The clear truth appears to him as he dictates it.

5. This is the full moon that travelled in
The horizon of beauty, so it settled in its place of happiness.

6. Beauty rose to veil his dazzling beauty,
Fearing for the eyes from the page of his cheek.

7. So it covered him with whiteness from its camphor,
And illuminated him with the blackness of its curling tresses.