1. O my companion, where is the ancient time
And the sweet tryst and companionable pact?

2. We whiled away the nights with wishes
And light in the vast, lofty space

3. Our appointments toy with the dawn
Thus the dawn in what we wish is drowned

4. Days whereon desire is sated
From us in a space with radiant light

5. Or the sanctity of our wedding nights
Is hidden behind a thin cloud's veil

6. That love which died, died that which
Enchained my soul at dawn of unleashed verse

7. And our torch was extinguished and
Our nights quenched, and the brisk morn

8. And time came as winter upon
Our climes, and snow blocked the road

9. O my companion, still the adolescence of morn
I wrap myself in its soft crimson

10. Laila is a cup, and I the drinker
Love before being syrup was a draught

11. So return to your wine-skins, and drink as
You used to from my cup, sipping the wine

12. Return, the roses will again delight us
And their perfume will wake, newly sprung