1. O house of Joseph, no greetings to your ruins
Between columns and doors once sublime

2. Your laughing windows smile at me still
Like a lover's smile to his ardent love

3. To water those inhabited mansions
Among courtyards, chambers and portals alike

4. The red bases and domes as though they were
Given to drink the sweet draught of dawn

5. You are met with shifting clouds and rays
Between the slopes of hills and towering peaks

6. The white temple shines amidst it all
Like a daisy in a meadow’s green and gold

7. How many a mute doll lies within
Outspoken by the tongues of the articulate

8. On each disheveled head, his crown of hair
As though it were the rising sun’s first light

9. And tousled locks - if I could but command
I'd replace their shaggy darkness with sheen

10. How many wishes have I cast unto it
Between the lofty grace and the loftiest grace

11. And disheveled tresses the dawn took in its right hand
And let flow like the carefree clouds Eastward bound

12. I have slept amidst its deer and wolves
Between the stolen tryst and the thief of hearts

13. Days when if its darkness saddened me
My imagination sent a ray to brighten it

14. At times I donned its shadows and it was as though
In the darkness of days, the crescent moon of a new dawn