1. Daughters of the night, this one who has always had
A heart that whispers to you about every sleeper

2. The darkness pitched its tents upon the world with clamor
And submerged it in a turbulent, billowing sea

3. And closed the eyelids of the stars in their abhorrence
And unleashed ghosts like the numbers of my insomnia

4. They have a tumultuous din, intensified
Answered by the awful roaring of the waves

5. Imagination's steed departs, rising up
Moaning with fatigue, unable to continue

6. Oh what a savage night, as though it were
The firmament's mourning for Adam's progeny

7. And oh what a wind, as though its gusts
Were bells tolling for the invading fates

8. And oh what a sea, whose clamor is like
The orphans' screams in faces of calamities

9. It has incurred upon the earths the curse of their Lord
Who poured upon it His wrath without mercy

10. Unless this night has turned bitter, as though I were
In a tomb's dome filled with maggots

11. So the eye perceives nothing but lanterns
That illuminate the enormity of its horror

12. Nor does the ear hear anything but what the winds
Recount to the waves in their ferocious gusts

13. Laughing derisively at them, though when
Lashed they rise up in a violent revolt

14. Behind me, before me, and in my heart is darkness
So how can I escape from the darkness that clings to me?

15. And a precipice of unfathomable depth beneath my feet
Loosening, with the might of formidable forces

16. The winds' currents flow until they bring them back
To take refuge in the nostrils of the ancient rocks

17. The waves assault them in their leaps
So they recoil from them like repelled clouds

18. They have the roar of lions when they approach
And the rustling of trees when they are defeated

19. A hell of waters boiling with froth
And howling with the wailing of wolves among the ruins

20. And swelling as if it had been revived
As though the tribulations of gloomy nights had stirred it