1. O lord of love, O sun, do not hasten
That I may see her before the time of parting

2. You set in the west horizon wavering
While the east horizon dawns humbled

3. As if the yearnings, when they left the earth and ascended
The hilltops and the trailing palm trees

4. Feelings I had hidden in my heart and protected
For so long that overflowed from my eyes and my eyelids

5. And a willow whose head is dyed with whiteness
Sways to the rhythm of the blowing winds

6. She appears like a village maiden who approached
With her jug from the flowing water chained

7. The day proclaimer eulogized for me and people
Though he had eulogized my companions and hopes

8. I wished him mute, unable to hear his voice
I wished he would plummet from his height to the ground

9. If only he deafened the ears of those who hear him
With shards of a heart in my shattered ribs

10. If only I strewed my sorrow beneath his feet
Stones of that frequented mosque

11. The countryside birds twittered when I left
As if in the birds' twittering was my death

12. I saw in it one day winged
So I hated the likeness of the slanderous enemy

13. As if when it spreads its wing
It extends to the hearts of people a dividing sword

14. Oh, if only the day would last an extra hour
That the lifetime of union would extend with a hastened glance