1. The allures of this world have not made me forget you,
None of your beautiful features have tempted me.

2. I wander around with beauty, yet your wonders drench me,
As the heart's longing roams around the blood.

3. So do not provoke its songs and blossom,
In the shade of remembering you, nothing but grief and sorrow.

4. I believed in love, if not for you I would not have
Moved my ribs toward a family or homeland.

5. O you whom I was confused, not knowing whether
Your passion or infatuation was the ordeal of ordeals.

6. It would not have harmed if my eyes had slept or suffered
Before parting, in sight of your beautiful face.

7. If I had not glimpsed your example in Paris,
In the rising of the moon or in the blossoming of art.

8. Sleep would not have befriended my eyelids, nor would
My heart have endured what separation stirred of passions.

9. The nights charmed upon me, but not oppressive,
I am fit for what I have encountered of my time.

10. So I have not seen ordinary dangers,
Except I built my peace upon overcoming them.

11. Nor have I glimpsed any hopeful glimmers,
Except I plunged into whatever art I transcended.

12. I made my life an endless meaning,
In service of glory, however far I wandered.