1. O you there—this tender, timid young gazelle!

    Let us attain our desire, and then repent.

  2. Even the noble may stray, though he is revered;

    even a man may stumble, though he is discerning.

  3. Had your Lord willed chastity for me, there would have been no

    moon in whom dune and slender bough undulate.

  4. And when one sees hail budding in your mouth,

    men’s very livers melt for it.

  5. Never suppose your phantom is absent from me; indeed it is—

    by your father—the beloved visitor.

  6. O Joseph in beauty, be one who sends me

    your shirt—for I am Jacob.

  7. Though I thirst, I drink my fill from none but you;

    and though I fall ill, none but you is my physician.

Sol 5.6