1. Silk was ennobled when it became your raiment—

    and why not, when your body is softer to the touch than silk?

  2. O young gazelle, the more aloof from me you grow,

    the more the heart grows intimate with you.

  3. People’s minds were bewildered when he came forth,

    walking with languid grace in a sleek satin cloak,

  4. breathing forth a waft of musk,

    smiling to reveal lustrous teeth between dusky lips.

  5. He is the third of the two moons—and the most perfect of them,

    the brightest in radiance, and farthest beyond reach.

  6. Indeed, their difference in elevation makes plain

    who among them occupies the highest station:

  7. the full moon is in the first heaven, and the sun in the—

    middle, while the one I love inhabits the outermost sphere.

Sol 5.6