1. With a dog's wail he calls his beloved
From the dark night, its gloom and clouds

2. He called hoping to wake one like Layla's son
When her stars withdrew into hiding

3. I roused for him a storm, no gentle rain
That brings harm when its barren winds blow

4. As if in its chambers the impossible palace
Revealed virgins when its veil was lifted

5. Angrily like the ostrich's kick it was stirred
With wooden stakes, its tent pegs gone

6. Ready, with no shelter left around it
When the limping wet nurse lost her way