1. Did I forget love or did I neglect it
And deliberately waste my youth or was I oblivious

2. By your life, nature, the soul, and youth
Have a right over you, so be faithful to them

3. Are you not the most gentle in nature? Do you see
A gentle nature except being sociable?

4. Your youth's obedience is an obligation
So it is ignorance to avoid obedience

5. Drink cups of indulgence, moons of its horizon
And be embracing humanity, oh lively companion

6. Do you not see the branch of youth from you leafing
And the moon of passion calling you from above?

7. If the gazelles of beauty surround you
They come to the meadow of union if you were a water-bearer

8. So renew, your soul's festivals of youth
And be above the altar of joy an elevator

9. And embrace the breasts of gazelles in every playground
And kiss cheeks that wish dreams

10. For no rose of joy withers from inability
And no pleasures are tasted by one who is dry

11. And take the initiative as life is a playground of pleasure
And the steeds of youth in it become accustomed

12. For there is no good in the life of a young man
If he does not flirt with loves in coyness

13. Long have I loosened in the arena of love
The rein of the soul's steed openly and secretly

14. So how many meadows of passion I was
Where flowers were blooming and I was a companion

15. And no gazelle except I was its hunter
And no branch except I was its governor

16. And I remained the cheek of passion without its people
Months and years passing neglected

17. So say to one who became devout about indulgence
And spent the night of disapproval lasting

18. Be arrogant and increase wonder and be yourself certain
With your devotions which you were with disobedient

19. And as for the people of manners, for them is God
Without devotions that would be disobedient