Sol 5.6

  1. Among the people of learning and letters,

    books—the very essence of literature—are sought.

  2. Then favor me, O you who has carried off the prize-reeds of—

    —precedence at every coming and going,

  3. with The Book of the Singing-Girls; truly, for it I—

    —am racked by burning thirst, yearning, and melancholy.

  4. I ask to borrow it, that I may copy whatever is in—

    —it, so it comes to lie preserved within my book.

  5. Then it will come back to you swiftly after that;

    and yours will be my thanks—the finest recompense.

Sol 5.6