1. The love of my heart is fire, so
Don't kindle its rage, or stir its embers

2. Leave it be, don't wake its coals
For fire is softer than whispering

3. My heart finds bliss in your peace
Though passion's hell be its fate for loving you

4. Give my tender lips some warmth
And spare them in mercy from my sighs!

5. The cold grew harsh! Does it harden against you?
How strange the evening is pleased!

6. And how often you came to it with tenderest singing,
And shone in it with heaven’s own glow.

7. What agony has oppressed you,
Or what misery or sorrow?

8. I implore you, do not abandon
Our treasures to loss and decay!

9. For these are no mere ink
Nor pages, my sister.

10. But the heart’s agitation,
The flowing tears, the bright gaze,

11. And the dreams of life and its longing
For two souls after toil and weariness

12. To spend an evening watching
The beauty of dusk and the magic of sunset!

13. I feel your heart's hurt,
And your cheeks aflame with tears.

14. I hear the cry of the anguished
As despair grapples inside his breast.

15. And I glimpse, beside the grave,
Faces worn by grief and humility

16. Gazing at it, bowed over it,
And how dreadfully it wrenches the heart!

17. For them, your nights, or my memories,
Come with wings of light.

18. They hear your voice in the darkness
And it makes the earth quake and pierces the sky.

19. Their hands stroke kisses
On parched lips.

20. And they pour prayer in your ears
And hope's light in your saddened heart.

21. O brides of the valley of imagination
With the merciful divine goddesses!

22. Come, drive away this creeping misery
And restrain this weakened hand.

23. Save this devoted lover,
For the fire has almost devoured him!

24. Letters - the noblest written
By love's hand or echoed by its lips!

25. Protect these blossoms
That the branches illuminated for no lips but hers.

26. And which no breath stirred but the breath of passion,
No scent but its own fragrance.

27. Blossoms that are visions of a night
That is a whole life.

28. Love gathered them in a divine bouquet
With its hands.

29. O brides of the valley of imagination!
Come, bring the spirit of consent and peace.

30. Judge between me and she
Who rages against her impassioned lover.

31. She leaves him and prolongs their separation,
Then asks where is his devotion?

32. If he says: you destroyed it!
She races to kindle a fire within it.

33. O brides, will you not listen
To my sister, mistress of this ode?

34. A soul sang with such clarity
And a heart echoed like this song:

35. I am love, do not cast me
Into the fire, for I am strong!

36. I am no ash for it,
No fragment of rusted steel.

37. I am the unique essence -
My purity cannot melt, my light never fades.

38. I was granted immortality
And gave it to those who are inspired to poetry or song.

39. Thrones will crumble and suns will fall
But my eternal unconquerable throne remains.

40. It is the heart, greatest of what
God's hand created and nothing rivals it!

41. O brides of the valley of imagination,
Come, bring her hand closer, bring it closer!

42. The love of my heart - I forgot the blame
And the claims of innocence and guilt.

43. I even forgot, as if it never was,
What happened yesterday or passed me by!

44. The gossip returned my passion
To my heart, so kindle it or set it ablaze!