O luminous beauty
\nJewel of the summer
\nyour eyes
\nmake me think of my homeland.
\nThey sing of the cedars
\nand olives.
\nYour night-black hair
\nis bound up like the dusk
\nand the thick scent
\nof jasmine
\nwhich tumbles down
\nin the thick evening.
\nYour coral smile
\nis a pomegranate
\ncracked open at dawn
\nspilling forth sweetness.
\nO gazelle,
\nI would leap the
\ngarden fence
\nto place my head
\nin your lap,
\nto hear your low voice,
\nand feel your fingers
\nrun over me
\nlike winds in the palms,
\nas I count your perfections
\nwhich number as
\nthe sands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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