Sol 5.6

  1. My happiness was complete, and the passing hours revealed

    to me joys and the warmth of companionship.

  2. I see the moons glide proudly before me,

    and in night’s deepest darkness behold a sun.

  3. God be praised—what a slender, graceful gazelle,

    like the gazelle, yet lovelier still!

  4. Across the two planes of his cheeks

    are roses, and in his mouth a carnation.

  5. An eclipse came over him

    from a request he had forced himself to make.

  6. Do not marvel: he is a sun,

    and the sun is wont to be eclipsed.

Sol 5.6