1. Open your heart to beauty's allure,
And let your soul become a sky of bliss.

2. Fall in love with a gazelle or a maiden,
Or a doe or a mute doll.

3. The secret is to melt in passion,
To converse with stars or gazelles.

4. When you shine in youth, you become
Neither flower, nor fragrance, nor meadow.

5. And when you are bored, you become like
A branch, nay a breeze of freedom and swaying.

6. Sometimes you enchant minds with prose,
And sometimes you blend with the haze.

7. When asked who you are, you say:
I am a hand that caresses the sand dunes.

8. And when you speak of fate, you hear
Thunder at times, and song at others.

9. The secret of all beauty in the world is love,
Through which souls taste annihilation.

10. All perfection of skill in an art
Comes when the artist melts away in its toil.

11. Toil seems easy only to one
Who is passionate for the art, shunning riches.