1. I fell in love with him as an old man, his silver hair seeming

    upon his two cheeks like jasmine laid upon roses;

  2. a man of reason, who knows what reason demands.

    I felt him safe from any watcher or rival.

  3. They say humankind is divided in two under the law of love:

    some favor black-bearded men, and others the beardless.

  4. Yet if I were ever to yearn for a beardless youth,

    I would yearn instead for a slender woman, graceful and swaying.

  5. Among black-bearded men, I saw that I had a rival,

    so I chose to remain alone with their white-bearded one.

Sol 5.6