1. Is it my soul residing in you? Or my ghost?
The ecstasy of joy has played with my mind!

2. O tavern of spirits, what has
The drink's rapture done to the soul in you?

3. Why is the sky aflame with its expanse?
It's dawn! Dawn has not yet appeared!

4. And why is the lake boiling
As if it erupted from the sweat of a slaughter?

5. A flying fire, and a noisy parade
From every blithe moment unleashed

6. Were it not for my neighbor's smile, and a mouth
That comes close to me with an open chest

7. I would have thought it “Rome” swirling in flames
In the mockery of the vulgar and impudent

8. An arrogance possessed me, which stupefied me
And from stupor, the witticisms of jokes

9. Am I the stranger here with my hands full
Of the folds of this playful attire?

10. Her tresses fluttered on my face
So I pulled her with an amputated arm

11. I did not know, as she handed me my drink,
Where I was inebriated and awake

12. And the singer trilled, so I gathered around her
How much song I have as a gift!

13. She offered forbidden fruit
And I offered – I did not speak nor explain

14. O Lord, all Your creation is seduction
Where to flee, and how am I laid down!

15. These masterpieces, You are their Creator
Between unveiled and veiled

16. “Thais” did not toy with her monk
But he was infatuated to the point of illness

17. Between locked secrets
And knocking on a door not yet opened

18. Beauty presented itself to him so he aggrandized it
And saw You in it, so he went mad from joy

19. Do You think my punishment matches
Were it not for You it would not be prescribed nor implemented?!

20. I worshipped You in the paradise of a lip
And a hand, and a bright shining face

21. And if I could, I would make my prayer beads
Fruit of breasts, most excellent in praising!