1. No, and what did the tears ask as they flowed
Down your soft cheek in streams?

2. And the gentle pillow’s sweet scent reveals
Pearls upon pearls above the pillowcases.

3. And a figure, if touched, O confusion of my soul,
Is pleasure yet distance to the withering roses.

4. And a glance like white eggs in the blackness of
Lashes which have afflicted me with weakness and despair.

5. I have not been entertained from your love, nor have
I turned from my vow, even after the distance of tombs.

6. And whenever you move away, O full moon, from a condition
To my heart, it pours with rain.

7. I do not care what happens, and my heart is
A house of the houses of moons.

8. You are, without passion in the beloved of the heart,
Resident in a burning coal.

9. And wondrously it does not die out, and on it
Are eyes that have softened with copious tears.

10. In you is a meaning from the gazelle, and if not
For that, you would not be so enamored with fleeing.