1. O little night, within whose darkness there is no light—

    save faces rivaled by gold dinars.

  2. Dark-eyed beauties—their eyes gave me death’s cup to drink;

    what was it those eyes of deepest black and purest white gave me to drink?

  3. When they smile, the mouth’s pearls lie in ordered rows;

    and when they speak, the pearls of speech are scattered abroad.

  4. Put youthful passion behind you, and conclude a deed with wisdom;

    for the conclusion of deeds is atonement.

  5. Good and evil are yoked together in a single tether:

    good is to be followed, and evil to be shunned.

Sol 5.6