LI: Both fair and rosy, too, are the Adam…

Both fair and rosy, too, are the Adam Khel Afridi maids;
Indeed, amongst them, all sorts of pretty lasses there are--

With large eyes, long drooping lashes, and arched eyebrows--
Honey lips, rosy cheeks, and moon-like faces, too, have they.

Small mouths, like unto rose-buds, teeth regular and white--
Their heads round, and covered with dark curls, of amber redolent.

Their bodies soft and sleek, and like an egg, so smooth and glossy--
Their feet diminutive, their heels round, their hips prominent.

Thin stomached, broad chested, and small waisted
In stature, straight, like the letter alif; and of complexion fair.

Although my peregrinations may, like the falcon's, be among the hills;
Still, many pretty plump partridges my quarry I have made.

Young and untaught, or old and trained, the falcon seeketh his prey;
But more scientific, and more unerring, is the old bird's swoop.

It is either the water of the Landdaey river, or of the Barah stream,
That tasteth sweeter, and more delicious, than sherbet in my mouth.

The hills in the Matari Pass shoot straight up into the sky;
And one's corpulence soon diminisheth, climbing and ascending them.

Along with the Adam Khels into the Ti-rah country I came;
And having dismissed them to Khwarrah, with regret I returned.

Love's affairs, O Khushhal! are fraught with fire to excess;
For shouldst thou conceal the flame, the smoke thou still wilt see.