Sol 5.6

  1. And a camel-driver boy—I fell passionately in love with him,

    who endowed beauty with sweetness and splendor.

  2. He leads his camels along by reins—

    a supple bough dragging mountains with ropes.

  3. They obey him, despite the harshness of their nature:

    can beauty, then, soften camels?

  4. And when he mounts a camel, he ascends a rise

    laden with burdens from his rump.

  5. In his cheek is an ember, and in his utterances

    an ember savored as wit and conversation.

  6. And when he speaks tenderly with his young companion, it is as though

    the nightingales’ song had stirred a tumult.

  7. How lovely he is, tousled—as though his ringlets

    were pieces of cloud encircling him, a crescent moon.

Sol 5.6