1. I decked my page with jewels drawn from your adornments,

    and so its jet-black countenance grew radiant:

  2. pearls that graceful maidens, in their passion for them, wish

    might be made into ornaments for their throats.

  3. When glimpsed, they leave every eloquent speaker dumb;

    the eye is baffled, and the tongue is tongue-tied.

  4. By God, among them are far-famed golden verses,

    whose shell-born pearls multiply for the crown.

Sol 5.6