1. I offer my cheek for a kiss when she is pleased,
And cast it to her to be kissed by her hand.

2. And I fold my arms about her breaths
That the heat of an extinguished heart may be cooled.

3. She touched me with her palm in a gentle caress
And her veil is a spray of tender jasmine.

4. And I knew in her spirit the joy that she felt
As a patient knows his healing in the physician.

5. Why should I dwell far from my home in exile?
Did my star decree that I roam to be born ?

6. I will ever annihilate despair by the assurance
Of hope, in the breasts of the mountains embosomed.

7. I roamed the wide world in weariness unredeeming,
I bore my sorrows in secret beyond the last bounds.

8. Strange is she who accrues to my love the sweet pleasure
Of joy when her voice fills my heart with its sound.

9. She caused me to rend the robust mount asunder
With a cascade of tears cataracting violently.