1. A coarseness has settled upon this fellow’s beauty,

    as though it were Ibn Manṣūr’s comb.

  2. What a beard—he has torn away its curtains

    with one of his fingers and a fingernail!

  3. Thus his cheek is now made of dung,

    and now of a shell of crystal;

  4. now it is musk-like in color,

    and now the color of camphor.

  5. He admires beardless youths and imitates them—

    a counterfeit likeness among counterfeits.

  6. He says, “How beautiful is the Lord of all creation,

    who planted darkness within the light!”

Sol 5.6