1. Spring adorned the earth like her sister
Before the eyes and her sister like a twin

2. With splendor it delighted me so I sang to it
And found in it a meaning that blindness misses

3. So I came to gaze upon a charming rose
The dew smiled in its closed lips

4. I saw that I was looking at a beauty
Who captures with a glance and a smile

5. I raised a hand and found the branches to be coquettes
Spraying me with the glances of a mocker

6. And there the garden carpet was splendid
With an awe that humbles the arrogant

7. As if the tender leaves were doves
Like thoughts hovering above a worried head

8. And I found a voice like the breeze of morning
Sweetly murmuring as if from a lover

9. A voice from the deep sea as though
It were the soft tune of the writhing snake

10. Amazing that a meaning in the folds of words
Takes the mind captive with burning passion

11. O you whose life sorrow makes stoop
And darkness covers every gloomy cave

12. Too long have you frowned at the world
Forgetting the smile of the cheerful

13. Do not think time's tender moments will return
Happiness is rare, incompatible

14. Were you ever anything but a wandering phantom
Or was your life anything but a hazy dream?

15. And for this moment you now delight in
Is a dream within a lasting dream

16. The darkness is mine and its dreams are confused
I return to gaze upon the fresh smile

17. And find in place of the rose a worm
Oh what pain life's harm has concealed!