1. O nightingale singing on the branches
My tears would not have overflowed were it not for you amidst my solitude

2. They reproached me for crying - if only they knew
What your laments have stirred in me, O nightingale

3. Had they seen a moon I bid farewell at dawn
They would have wept with me and wished well to one who makes me yearn

4. How often the one sent by God said to me:
“Do not cry for me after I am gone with sorrow and eagerness”

5. This bequest - were it not for passion I'd not forget
O nightingale, have mercy on the suffering lover