Nagananda 3.13

3.13

dinakarakarāmṛṣṭaṃ bibhrat dyutiṃ paripāṭalāṃ
daśanakiraṇauḥ saṃsarpadbhiḥ sphuṭīkṛtakesaram /
ayi makhamidaṃ mugdhe ! satyaṃ samaṃ kamalena te
madhu madhukaraḥ kintvetasmin pibbanna vibhāvyate? //

Jímútaváhana (looking in the face of heroine).
O lovely one! if this face of thine, with its pink flush as it is lighted up by the sun's rays, and with its soft down revealed by the spreading gleam of its teeth, is really a lotus, why is not a bee seen drinking the honey from it?