1. O night of the beloved's abandonment, you lingered
Upon a youth consumed by endless yearning

2. With reddened eyelids he mistakes for
Rare tears shed in his heart from a wound

3. Did the sea freeze because of your darkness, so
The whale cannot swim across its expanse?

4. Or has confusion persisted, unabated
In the atmosphere between the duck and the goat?

5. If only I were the night of youth that flees
The morning of old age, swift of wing

6. If only I were the night of youth, elusive
To beholders' glances in a glimpse

7. When will I see a partridge land
With a fish the pike spears with its lance?

8. And a Pleiades whose wings can sever
Distances by its flapping flight

9. Dawn's grayish glow in its raid
Herds what the stars have of dispersion

10. So unleash the courtyard of darkness on a horizon
Where the radiance of dawn is unfurled