1. The ruins of a homeland with flashes and meadows
I have watered its valleys with the light of every spring

2. We stood among them between a tattered fold
Its curves and a heart broken by love

3. So it flashed from anklets and lightning of a cloud
And leaned from clouds in it and tears

4. Indeed the slanderers did not know that I am a lover
If only they knew my agony and passion

5. I have fulfilled that trust rightly
And confided the secret of love to none

6. And denied from my grey hairs the stars of guidance
When there rose from my darkness morning light

7. You are nothing but the sun whose brightness
Hides the stars of night that rose at dawn

8. And if love interceded for its guilt
No good is in a love that came with a broker

9. Or if patience betrayed me the day we met
I encountered it with my tears obediently

10. A strange love I love, a strange sail
And if it was from me in my chest and ribs

11. And the water of the valley did not know that its lover
When sediments were feared, is the best lover

12. It gathers around him ambitions from every side
Hastening, though none responds to its call

13. And a night of passion I was the knight of its wings
Until its eagle swooped down to fall

14. And my love gained nothing but emptiness and was not
My humiliation and surrender for any but the beloved

15. And if I was in a night of worries, if the specter of love
Passed through it, it would not return

16. And I have not tasted the flavor of sleep purely
For I mixed anguish with my tears

17. I stand firm though my companions pace is not mine
Nor one to reach their limit if they are cut off

18. I have knocked the pipes of the water skin gushing
With fresher than the cheeks of princely youths