1. Lo, Layla’s conversation lies beyond all reach—

    like the anūq-bird’s eggs: no hope of attaining it can be seen.

  2. It was they who crucified the man of ʿAbd al-Qays on a date-palm trunk;

    so may Shaybān never sneeze save through a severed nose!

  3. I summoned the bright, untamed rarities, and they retraced

    a broad road the odes had worn smooth.

Sol 5.6