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1593-1602

  • When his heart works (for you) in approval, deem it (to be) a sun entering Aries,
  • Because of whom both the day and the spring smile, and blossoms and green fields are mingled together,
  • And myriads of nightingales and ringdoves pour their song into the unplenished world. 1595
  • When you see the leaves of your spirit yellow and black; how know you not the anger of the King?
  • The King's sun, in the (zodiacal) sign of reproach, makes faces black as a piece of roasted meat.
  • Our souls are leaves for that Mercury (to write on): that white and black (writing) is our standard (criterion).
  • Again, he writes a patent in red and green, that (our) spirits may be delivered from melancholy and despair.
  • Red and green are Spring's cancellation (of winter); in regard (to their significance they are) like the (coloured) lines of the rainbow. 1600
  • How reverence for the message of Solomon, on whom be peace, was reflected in the heart of Bilqís from the despicable form of the hoopoe.
  • Hundredfold mercy be on that Bilqís to whom God gave the intellect of a hundred men!
  • A hoopoe brought the letter with the (royal) sign-manual from Solomon—a few eloquent words.