1. Though the days have come to whiten the parting of my hair,

    and carried off my cares and blunted my keen edge,

  2. ah, many a day I drank from a spring

    with which I cleared thirst’s haze—cool and sweet.

  3. And many a night I spent without sin,

    with one whose twin anklets lay still—the heart’s sweet basil.

Sol 5.6