1. If only you had seen us as we arose,
While fate looked down on us with mocking eyes,

2. You would have slipped the ring from off your hand,
And torn the veil that hides you from my sight.

3. But modesty has built a wall between us,
Though passion fills our hearts with sad delight.

4. And if, Saad, I die not from my desire,
My life is but a foretaste of that flight.