1. O nights in seclusion, I find no comfort in you
Despite what you've brought of disquiet

2. It's as if what was gone from us, we did not see
Or we were given death's cup, brought near

3. So return O safe ghosts
Do not persist in misguidance, quick to pursue

4. The specter does not haunt the reminiscent longing one
And longing is the mark of lovers true

5. O my home that I've loved, and O my soul
What I have stored of binding ropes

6. O my loved ones in my far-reaching horizons
And my extended, extended vistas

7. May God guide your steps in life
And suffice you from stumbling's pitfalls

8. And protect you, and weigh you with
Enduring, noble traits, enduring through the nights

9. Our awaited day! You were blessed a day
You are in our Lord's knowledge, the Creator

10. The loved ones meet in your loved horizon
And are healed from burning longing

11. She is in the abundance of eternity, my companion
Who sang with delicate memories

12. She softened in the space of my Lord, wandering
Still loving the meadows

13. We have taken off life's dress, faded
And drank the heritage in a bitter cup

14. And awoke while dawn was gloomy
And darkness stifling, the depths obscured

15. The soul grew weary of its vigil and hated it
And my waking from its worries and preoccupations

16. So when will I rest from its heavy burden
And be saved from its brilliant magic?

17. O life's setting, you made me forget the light
And excluded me from radiance

18. And erased existence except traces
Bound by the hand of ruin in a contract

19. It spoke the clear truth from the decisive saying
And poured out its mysterious secret

20. And fell, no calamities can divert it
Nor does it desire the lofty imagination

21. Our days have announced their passing
And we broke free of their strangling bond

22. Death has freed us from its arduous captivity
And what it contained of servitude

23. What is my benefit from the full moon if
My crescent is clay of ruin and erasure?

24. Many a night the heart elongated with light
And a night for which you loosened the stars

25. Without you I am but yearning and wakefulness
I do not fear my vigil nor our separation

26. Between a heart intensely loving the loved ones
And a specter traversing the horizon

27. That is my way, you essence of the soul and heart
And those are my morals

28. So if I am gone, the return is near
For the tortured, restless lover

29. Bid farewell to companions, O fallen to calamities
For the parting of loved ones cannot be borne

30. And prepare, for you are but a shuddering shadow
Shifting and speeding away

31. The lamps do not frighten the individual
Nor overtakes the racer

32. Every branch leads to decay and withering
Like a demolished inscription, borders erased

33. How can the doves free me from my people
When the doves do not make me accustomed?

34. I am in the grip of God! And how much
I praise my humility and love my bond

35. So be gone, O life, completely gone
And cast me from your pitch-black night

36. And take what led me and pulled me
To the lands of poverty and deprivation

37. The soul longs to be saved from captivity
And yearns for the fulfilling refuge

38. So when, I wonder, will my release be done?
And when, I wonder, will my emancipation come?

39. Life has denied us worry and sorrow
And death has quenched what we have endured

40. We pass our cups in succession, satisfied
And how sweet is our communion in the gardens

41. I waver between death and life, and my vigil wearies me
While sinking pleases me

42. O poison we enjoy, and illness
That the afflicted drinks as an antidote

43. No healing hovers around my deathbed
And hardship bitter has taken me by the throat

44. So rest, O you sick at heart
From a frightened, fluttering heart

45. The cups of passion are drained, and glad tidings have faded
Parting looms behind embrace

46. The horses of youth are stripped of intimacy
So treat generously those you held dear

47. And I have folded up youth in the parchment of age
And bade it farewell with a shedding tear

48. Sleep now, O life, in your groaning cave
And in your lasting, abandoned cradle