بَدرُ تَمٍّ لَهُ عَلى الخَد خالٌ
في اِحمرار يَنشَقُّ مِنهُ الشَقيق
A full moon, with a beauty mark upon his cheek,
amid a flush from which the red anemone blooms.
كتب الحُسن بِالمحقق مَعنا
هُ وَلَكن عِذارَه تَعليقُ
Beauty wrote, by erasure, a meaning—
he is that meaning; yet his facial hair is a marginal annotation.
Sol 5.6