وَمُستَنصِرٍ يُزهى بِخُضرَةِ شارِبٍ

وَفَترَةِ أَجفانٍ وَخَدٍّ مُوَرَّدِ

With a mustache becoming green through youthfulness

And languorous eyelids and rose-tinted cheek

كَأَنَّ عِذارَيهِ عَلى قَمَرٍ عَلى

قَضيبٍ عَلى دَعصٍ رَطيبِ الثَرى نَدي

As if his incisors were upon a moon a wand

a branch sweet smelling soil's wetness

تَبَسَّمَ إِذ مازَحتُهُ فَكَأَنَّهُ

يُكَشِّفُ عَن دُرٍّ حِجابَ زُمُرُّدِ

He smiled when I jested with him, as though

he were unveiling a pearl concealed by an emerald's covering