1. The eglantine has wooed the narcissus’s glance

    in a gathering where the rain itself was given drink by the company.

  2. It gazes toward it as do those who, fearing the—

    watchers—graceful maidens peering through drowsy glances.

  3. The rain made the rose blush, until it seemed to be

    my cheek, flushed by the blaze of my breath,

  4. among young companions, where the gardens of her love unfolded

    and flourished beyond the bloom of the coursing stars that hide.

  5. The choicest wine of remembering you went round among them,

    and the company began to sway like supple boughs,

  6. hoping for your coming, that its joy might be complete

    and its eye be gladdened—O life of souls!

  7. May your rose remain ever fresh in its garden,

    and your luxuriant youth splendidly arrayed,

  8. as long as gray doves warble atop a leafy grove

    in a garden clothed in mantles of fine silk.

Sol 6.1