1. I turned my love toward the dark-skinned folk of Hajar,

    and paid no heed to Byzantines or Khazars.

  2. I have come to adore, in face and body,

    what others adore in eyes and hair.

  3. If you count blackness of skin a blemish,

    then look at the dusky shadow upon the moon’s cheek.

Sol 5.6