Sol 5.6

  1. The whiteness of a page gleams beautifully,

    like a sword’s broad blade in a lovely one’s hand;

  2. like a cloud grown sheer at the edges of the sky,

    and water spreading over a spacious plain.

  3. It resembles a field of pure camphor,

    strewn with fragments of slit-open musk—

  4. like night within a dawn breaking open,

    or a temple-lock against a radiant face.

  5. And among its lines are unerringly placed dots,

    like a beauty mark upon a lovely cheek.

Sol 5.6