1. My covenant has no annulment
And my pact has no dissolution

2. In people's bones I have revival
A wanderer whose abode is ruin

3. And my way with love is Balkhi
It is refused by one whose home is disdain

4. My two gardens of Paradise are her eyes
From which the valleys are irrigated

5. In my right hand is a crushing stone
For the head of one without life to crush

6. And he whom I intend is mighty
From his haughtiness the arrogant bows

7. A heart whose love was complete
Was not touched except by its stain from love

8. And the one who bears his burdens
Is none but youth whose companions are foes

9. Neither sword nor spear nor clubs
Turned him from his intent in love

10. Nations march to him
As beasts roam in the wild

11. A blaze gratifies his eyes
For in his love his heart is cooked

12. O father of the full moon in the Highest Heaven
Above the seven spheres most high

13. Being apart from him is a sign
For lovers that the new moon returns

14. He who gained virtue did not gain
From his surplus, one who is not generous

15. And he who transgressed his bounds and rebelled
His form by it is transfigured

16. The tower of the birds of passion is his abode
Where the fledgling and chick were raised

17. So whoever coveted for another
Is hunted down by traps

18. And no soul that lost its passion
Has in its soul from his soul breath

19. And whoever spent the bloom of youth
Not in his love missed its bloom