1. They perplex me wherever they went and pitched their tents
After parting, they camped and settled

2. They captivated my heart and monopolized my sight
So my sleep is forbidden and my heart is surrendered

3. If their beauty is like a spring to me every moment
Then my sleep in their love is forbidden

4. I kiss from them every breeze at dawn
That blows from their dwellings and comes from them

5. And if a flash of lightning smiles upon the bright crooked lightning
I say the bending full moon has smiled

6. And if a gentle breeze from them reaches me
With a fragrance that I know, I say it is from them

7. And when we went forth to bid farewell and they unveiled
Faces to us that are full moons and stars

8. Then every eyelid began flowing with its tears on the morrow
And every tongue translating its passion for them

9. So one who scattered the pearls of his speech
Beginning to pour tears in quantity and adorned

10. Another who held back a heart, almost revealing
What was hidden of love and concealed

11. Their company is still for me a heaven
And parting from them has never been hell