1. Live for beauty, you will find it sparkling
In stars of the night or flowers of gardens,

2. And palms have erected with it as a roof
A pavilion of vitality for the winds.

3. And in mountains, when evening circulates around them
Draping them in robes of awe,

4. And in streams it has a child’s chatter
And in lightnings, the laughter of the ecstatic.

5. And in the smiles of a moon, and her glory
And if she turns away, it is in the eyelids of September.

6. There is no time for beauty, no limit by which it's measured,
But we are the people of limit and time.

7. So how it has throbbed in the dress of a singing girl,
And how it has shone in the clothes of a pauper!

8. And how a blind man has felt it and raved,
While all around him scoffed and were not enthralled.

9. Live for beauty, you will find it here and there,
Live for it, it is genuinely a secret treasure.

10. Better and superior than those who feel no yearning
For beauty - merely idols of clay.