1. Ask him: has he found solace, or has his heart changed?

    If not, his writings betray his melancholy.

  2. A stranger in sorrow, he loves a stranger in beauty,

    one of the Turks; his veils are like eyebrows.

  3. A gazelle—but the heart is his covert;

    a crescent—but his under-robes are his clouds.

  4. The oryx envy his eyes whenever he gazes,

    and when he sways through the garden, its boughs envy him.

  5. Ah, my companion—who will aid a love-maddened lover,

    melancholy, whose song is wailing and whose drink is tears?

  6. His eyelid has forsaken sweet slumber, devoted to journeying by night,

    and his side is kept far from the softness of the bedding.

Sol 5.6