1. The sands have driven me mad
And made me lose all reason

2. With gazelles beyond count
No words can describe their beauty

3. To gaze at them renews my soul
As I drink deep of pleasure

4. Glory to Him who made them gazelles
With neither scripture nor decree

5. Twenty thousand, a thousand thousand
My torment in loving them is long

6. O God, O God, in my heart
A worshipper made drunk on beauty

7. Passion has seized and possessed him
Like wine undiluted

8. When they cry out, existence itself
Shines radiant from luminous clouds

9. This beautiful world is fire
Revealed to my soul unveiled

10. I covered it when it appeared
In the noblest of my raiment