1. Had it not been for your love and the gravity of your love's affairs
I would not have one day loosened your braids

2. And when I stood, though my eyelids were weighed down
By her black hair's snares in my bosom

3. The spies were aware of your troth so I did not attain
The object of my desire, so to you I complain of my misery

4. And you claimed the pact was fixed and binding
But where is the sweetness of union?

5. And if you grieve for a debauched glance
Behind it is a heart of devotees

6. My heart has not tasted the joy of your favours
It is that which has made you independent of your singer

7. Had it not been for it, I would not have kindled the fire of my soul
And I would not have sacrificed the red of my tears for your sake

8. Oh, for a night the times would allow to be
But for the watcher I would say what sweets you have!

9. Give me some noble drink on it I will prepare
And the blonde server bring her here and take this

10. I sent it red as ruby in
Pure white like the tear of a weeping cloud

11. It almost flew from the glass but
The mold gave it a hidden mesh

12. The color is from your cheeks, the bubbles from
Your eyes, the smells from your saliva

13. As if the sighs of the morning breeze
Were musk exhaled by the highest of angels