1. Oh heart that is grieved by separation's pangs
And scorched by lightning flashes of beloved's tears

2. When patience calls you one day, you disobey
And to love's decrees you're obedient, it appears

3. You concealed passion for ages, but with its secret
Eyes conversed, and shed what you hid of tears

4. Oh dwelling of passion, which separation denied
Will the distant, weeping lover to you steer?

5. I recalled in you life, and the branch, O spring
The saliva, and the embrace of all the zealots too

6. So you revealed what ribs within concealed
By God, breasts concealed, which only ribs knew

7. And if not for love, the eye would not have wept
Nor would my heart be cleft by plains and hills