1. Did the departed friend when he left recommend me,
However passion willed, to my loved ones?

2. Long have I passed the night complaining of the fires of my yearning,
A hidden complaint, without response.

3. And I remembered the days of companionship now past,
When my friend's pleasure failed to cloy.

4. Then I called in the darkness, and my tears,
Ever streaming between my eyelids,

5. Called too: "Is my reunion after estrangement
Allowed? Or my approach after distance?

6. My heart is steadfast when it seeks affection,
Though it perishes from the spring of torment.

7. My tears suffice when rain has failed
Despite my friends' broken vows.

8. Now I am in lasting bliss
After suffering and pain once marked me.

9. He is my sun, though long concealed
From my eyes the day desire veiled him.

10. His phantom deluded me,
Like the mirage which lures the thirsty.

11. In his refusal of me is a paradise
Of bliss and joy, if I could enter.

12. If temptation wishes to turn me aside,
My hearing is deaf to warning.

13. O crescent moon of beauty, O son of the crescent moon,
O crescent shining among the lions of the forest!

14. My heart grieved when you departed, but now
Exults that you have kindly returned.

15. How many brimming cups of your glance I drank,
Till cloyed with rapture like clinging branches dripping.

16. Endure, while the stars shine down or
The garden laughs at the weeping clouds.