1. O my heart that has windows blown open,
And O my regrets, what has seeped into my heart,

2. I swear, since the eyes have wept, they are verandas,
Willowy women wailing upon a dome.

3. If only they could drink him in, they would;
When his ships return, their anguish redoubles.

4. I swear, no elegance departs from them;
They have sworn lifelong grief, in fertile times or barren.

5. More binding to me the day their burdens shifted
And the first riders ascended from the dune.

6. All the gatherings of Time I have found
Lighter than the loss of loved ones, calamitous.

7. When she who loved me parted from me
A lover feeling the ache of absence, tumultuous,

8. She made you taste the bitter draught of life
Or the cups of regret, like the water-drawer who died on the dune.

9. And I said to my heart, when passion enveloped me,
And love burdened me beyond all bearing:

10. "O heart led into passion’s ways!
Awaken! May God grant your eye no sleep from the beloved."