1. O house that I do not visit
My neglect of you is sinful

2. I left you longing, and visited cautious
Over me time with you keeps guard

3. I will beseech the days regarding you, perhaps
With a day of joy in your love I'll be rewarded

4. You were set apart, isolated
Though needs pressed on my soul, and they were near

5. If despair bars the way to Layla
Despair may yet come the other way, painful

6. You flattered me until when you saw me
On the brink for onlookers unsure

7. You turned away and gloated the foe over our dispute
May you be rewarded Layla, ample reward

8. The torrent rushed, so the torrent made me weep when it rushed
And for it from my eyelids floods poured out

9. That was only when I despaired that it
Would be in a valley, you from it near

10. It would be turbulent far from you, but when it reached
You, it would meet your sweetness and turn sweet

11. So O dwellers in the palms' outskirts, each of you
To my heart for the beloved's sake is a beloved

12. I live shaded, a stranger in fertile land
Alas every outcast there is a stranger

13.
Though the lone dune on the sanctuary's right side

14. Is to me, though I did not make it my beloved
So no good is in the world when you do not visit