When shone her day-face, from that musky cloud bare,

Her eyes oped Shirin and beheld the King there.

Within that fountain, through dismay and shamed fright,

She trembled as on water doth the moonlight.

Than this no other refuge could yon moon find

That she should round about her her own locks bind.

The moon yet beameth through the hair, the dark night,

With tresses how could be concealed the sun bright!

To hide her from him, round her she her hair flung,

And thus as veil her night before her day hung.