1. My dreams flow as you flow on,
To where the distance is far and long.

2. You are the glory of one who walks your path,
Drawn by yearning to what he desires.

3. While my imagination freely wanders,
Leading me now here, now there astray.

4. As though I and the universe in my grasp -
A wanderer, driven, dispersed in it.

5. You keep your promise, protecting it
Through time everlasting, never to fade.

6. Has there e'er been a poet, whose love
Is renewed each day, sailing your banks,

7. Soaring to the peak in rapture,
Then bending as the wide plain stretches ahead?

8. Would that I and the magic of dusk
Could rise to that unique beauty!

9. And the flower bursts open at its peak
Between hard longing and stubborn union.

10. Whispers stir on her throne,
Rapture sweetens, the chant grows sweet.

11. Or would that I might long for a stream
Where contentment, though little, suffices.

12. I sip the drop, but slake no thirst,
While many fish, yet crave no more.

13. I ask about his state, what is his way,
Shunning wealth, choosing this barren place?

14. Ah, the murmur of the breeze around him,
One kiss giving life, another death.

15. Arm pillowed on arm, waist clasped to waist,
Cheek to cheek, and forehead to forehead.

16. What thoughts, O Nile, have you awakened,
If your echo could repeat them anew?

17. What of the poet, if rhyme bore him on,
And the ode responded to his call?

18. Tomorrow I will tell you from my tale,
Of a lightning flash, a new horizon.