1. The night has mercy on the eyes of those asleep
And wipes away with its palm the calling ray

2. It muted every shout in the mouth of the sun
And it leaned with the pride of pillows

3. And with similar tenderness it cloaked the universe
With cold from the garments of darkness

4. O Lord, O night you are merciful
You spare the people and the villainy of worshippers

5. Your kindness did not cloak existence except
The thorns were shy of the mourning heads

6. And hopes awoke at your hands
Dreamers of colors and flowers

7. You own the immersion and dust as the
Heart of a chaste woman owns a dormant dream

8. Then you cover the vast sky and flow
A lively life into the inanimate

9. And beauty overflows from you, leaving
No ugliness in the thousand worlds

10. You're a smile on the hillsides and endless
Forgiveness, endless birth

11. Every beauty from your palm is beautiful
The awe of silence and the manifest glory

12. Look at the earth when your breaths blow
The face of plains and palms

13. You see it humbled, the warbling of its shyness
Swaying with the leaning sand dunes

14. So the lips of flowers scent with fragrant
Incense sent into the faraway unknown

15. The wilderness bows before you and sighs
Intoxicated by the ecstasy of worship

16. So glorifications from the breasts of monks
Ascending, and from the atoms of twisted threads

17. And supplications wandering
At your feet, poured out on every valley

18. The world drinks you like
The downpours quench the thirsty plateau

19. The people enslaved the sun in the afternoons
While ignorant of worship

20. They wasted their anxiety without your care in
The awe of the glowing, vanishing sun

21. And they were disgraced before the temples of Egypt
Before the dawn of pyramids, before the ruins

22. And the soil of China fluttered with the blood
Of soothsayers, absent from prayer during festivals

23. It's time to receive the horizons
And the fiery feet and chanting crowds

24. And to scatter rice and salt into fire
To increase above any increase

25. And continuing screams as it is screams
Twisting, wounded in the ashes

26. And virgins deprived in the roads of sun
The groves of passion and the warmth of affection

27. Taking off my youth, weakness wears them out
In the isolation of ascetics

28. Thirsty for love in the theater of light
Do we get anything but stings that hurt?

29. Carry them above the breadth of souls
As purity and those bodies

30. Ask Baalbek, did its sun witness
Anything but processions of martyrdom?

31. Ask it how many times the sword scattered
Over its edge the years of steeds

32. Abdulnasser, the oneness of light is a sin
And they redeemed it with coquetry and births

33. They feared the glow in the east
And wore confusion about its burning secret

34. If they knew some of what you harbor they would fall
In the evenings upon the chest of struggle

35. You were before all time in the conscience
Of the unknown and remain for endless time

36. When no suns rise and no planet
Gleams on the horizon above the high dunes

37. And flowers die except a scent
Clinging in your margins to the expanse of the desert

38. And the world leaves, covered by its snow
In its shrouds, and passes away

39. As you alone, most wondrous of solitude
Rise to the atoms of oneness

40. I love you in the raging winter
Between the lightning glow and thunder

41. The anger of the faithful beneath the stirring of turmoil
In the fever of clamor and struggle

42. The spindly grass sways in fear of your gusts
And mountains collapse, unresisting

43. I love you in the gentle spring
Sweetly diffusing, lovely as my country

44. The stars dream about you on the hilltops
Captivated by the calling of a lover

45. And life itself nearly runs with the breeze
On every budding branch

46. I love you in autumn and summer
And I love you in the singing of the guide

47. I wish I had an embrace to cling to you tightly
Enfolded by my arms, clinging on

48. So existence would sway around me and collapse
While you remain immortalized in my heart