1. Your eyes hold a tale I see
Though you, my gazelle, do not speak

2. In them is the soul of life's magic
And light despite the gloom shines bright

3. Love commanded to imprison the youth
And for prison creates who loves

4. In sailing he finds refuge
If he cannot free himself from bond

5. How can roses quench their thirst
If the mouth of passion is not generous

6. I'm exposed in loving the sailor
And who wins in love is exposed

7. My mornings are cups of love
At night, I drink its wine

8. They blame my seclusion, do they understand
The joys the enamored gain?

9. With our love sins we're blessed
While the abstainer suffers, a criminal

10. How can life be sweet
If beauty we don't embrace every morn?

11. What good is the preacher's advice
If your heart cannot be cured?

12. Take from your time what the miser gave
All the youth of this origin are stingy

13. Their promises you know and recognize
In breaking promises they have no equal

14. Fifty years we spent with them
In our hearts were hopes and dreams

15. We saw nothing but thorns attacking us
And the wicked are lethal to brethren

16. They wished us well and said what suits them
But agitators they appease with lies

17. I'm a stranger in Egypt, I'm a man
Hypocrisy has no uncle or aunt

18. I live in a land where the past is lived
Like bees who gather no honey in the morn

19. In Egypt, geniuses have an era
Harsh, dreadful and burdensome

20. Oh you who pack patience, help me
Oh you who pack patience, though heavy in the scale

21. The free genius in Egypt, his coins
Are not worth what the cheater takes