1. O my rose, your beauty has done you wrong
And the goodness of your nurture made you suffer

2. Had it not been for them, you’d not be plucked still fresh
Else, youth would not turn from you in the garden

3. Had it not been for them, lovers had passed you by
Not looking,

4. And perhaps dew would have ignored you
And birds flown by, not singing

5. You were known for your excellence, and how excellent
Is one whom excellence has wronged, O my rose

6. Your blooming garden, O my rose
Has grown from every lovely pair

7. The dawn breaths in its flowers
Laughing, pure colored, aromatic

8. Its lilies, anemones, and poppies
Are all permitted

9. The morning breezes carry from it
Greetings to every youthful heart

10. And people walked about its edges
And stopped at you, O my rose

11. By God, how true is its wisdom
Through it, the ignorant found guidance in his time

12. The souls of people yearn for its days
Yet longing is but for its roses

13. It contains solace the troubled have deposited
The wisdom of the seeing for the blind

14. Was he not a star among his people
Shining to erase the darkness

15. Why then did they not value his superiority
That they even hurt you, O my rose

16. People judge the weak harshly
A secret from the secrets not realized

17. O my rose, many a plain seems easy
Yet its way destroys those who take it

18. Did they think you weak when you drew near
Easy to pick

19. No! But the soul that weakens
Feigns ferocity though it knows not

20. And the secret in the people's tyranny is their fear
Of these thorns, O my rose