1. The world's splendor and allure have not made me forget you
Nothing in your beautiful features can compare to your charm

2. I wander in beauty, you rain upon me its wonders
As the heart's desire wanders in the abode of time

3. So do not arouse its melodies and youthfulness
In the shadow of remembering you, nothing but anxiety and sorrow

4. I would not have believed in love, were it not for you
My ribs would not have left family and home

5. O you whom I am confused, not knowing whether your passion
Or your love is the ordeal of ordeals

6. No harm if my eyes enjoyed or suffered
Before departure, the sight of your beautiful face

7. Had I not glimpsed your likeness in Paris
In the rising of the moon or in the bloom of arts

8. Sleep would not have befriended my eyelids
Nor my heart endured what the separation provoked of agony

9. The nights were not unjust to me
I am worthy of what time has cast upon me

10. So I have not seen dangers as mundane
Except I built my dwellings upon their expanse

11. Nor glimpsed hopes shine
Except I plunged into what transcends statutes

12. I made my life an aimless philosophy
In the custody of glory, however far my forgetfulness wandered