Sol 5.6

  1. While we were discussing wanton pleasures,

    —and what it would delight us to wish for,

  2. suddenly our wishes appeared before us

    as paths branching off, singly and in pairs.

  3. I said, “Go on!” to one whom love had schooled,

    and leaned close to listen. He said, “Take this, you whom love torments:

  4. What think you of singing-girls?” I said, “Eight,

    all well matched in surpassing beauty and charm:

  5. four Hijazi women, dusky and slender,

    and four Persian women, exquisitely beautiful.”

Sol 5.6