1. My grey hair has banished the joy of youth
Grey hair has cast darkness when it shone

2. I decreed the shadow of youth would pass
When loyalty to me was transformed

3. Can you find for me any traces of my youth
He who feels the pain, seeks the cure

4. Shall I dress my greyness in the blackness of dye
Making for the dawn a nightly veil

5. How can I hope for the loyalty of dye
If I cannot find the loyalty of youth

6. And of a gentle breeze, the soul of the zephyr
It folded night and bestowed tranquility

7. It travelled and with it the soulmate of life
Upon the dead earth, the sky weeps

8. So from the sound of thunder driving the clouds
As the stallion hears the bellowing screams

9. And in its sides, lightning kindles
The flashes of swords brandishing brightness

10. Then darkness remained of the night
Oh dawn, bring the light

11. Oh wind, whether you passed by the beloved
And watered from it the thirsty meadows

12. Then drive to me the rainclouds
That I may fill them with my tears as water

13. And my weeping waters a quarter of youth
Which still in the meadow waters weeping

14. Do not deprive a ruin of dew
Whether it approaches or keeps its distance

15. And if you are unaware of it, its pillars
The blazing sun burns it to embers

16. And do not wonder, for the trenches of passion
The scent of its ruins perfumes the breeze

17. And I have among them an ardent love
From which I gained sickness of body

18. An abode the misfortunes threaded to
As prowling wolves rush with evil

19. I accompanied it through the gloomy darkness
And I visited it in obscure ruins

20. Beyond you, oh sea, is my paradise
With it I wore bliss, not misery

21. If I attempt to reach it one morning
You interpose between me and it, an evening

22. If only I was granted my wish
When the sea prevented a meeting

23. I would mount the crescent as a boat
Until in it I embrace consciousness