1. The scent of love is a respite and relief to its people
Though their livers have matured because of its bitterness

2. Shed my blood truthfully for your love, for
I see not love except in one who makes his brother lawful to him

3. Congratulations on a love in which my blood is held in high esteem
Your pleasure in steadfast passion is its pleasure

4. You estranged and betrayed one who did not betray you
And you said, “I am weary,” but none is weary save he

5. You destroyed the edifice of love from us by estranging
And by the likes of you the forbearing pleases his youth

6. God guided my heart to passion and led it astray
And had He willed after error, He would have guided it

7. A passion whose excuse is less than my passion, but
The affliction of one who loves is according to his passion

8. Sorrows brought gray hair before its time
And cracked a heart whose clarity cannot be disturbed

9. I grew old but my love-madness grew young except that I am
The gallant of love and its graceful elder its youth

10. I defeated armies of patience in the battle of love
And fell short praising it however long I praised it