You are as gold as the half-ripe
grain that merges to gold again, as white
as the white rain that beats through the
half-opened flowers of the great flower tufts
thick on the black limbs of an Illyrian apple
bough.
Can honey distill such fragrance as
your bright hair for your face is
as fair as rain, yet as rain that lies clear
on white honey-comb, lends radiance to the
white wax, so your hair on your brow casts
light for a shadow.