1. Why, my eyes, do you not sleep?
The night has wearied from so much wakefulness

2. It climbed up the plain, sighing
And bent over the bare hill

3. And closed its eyes finding comfort
In a tune of the scary darkness

4. Crying from afar, complaining of passion
And weeping over the calm fourfold

5. By Allah, my eyes, the dawn's eyelid
Flutters so why have you not slept?

6. And my soul longs for her apparition
Flowing from my heart and ribs