1. With a flash of lightning and a smile on his lips
He gifted the art of poetry on a night of poetry

2. His cheek distracted me, confused
So I found in the beauty of his verse the pearls of his sea

3. And his enviers blamed him as he passed by laughing
So I said it's the friction of pearls in the midst of his lips

4. And the guard rebuked me one day, not knowing
That I had diffused musk at the time of his mention

5. And how many apparitions visited me from him seducing
Waking the people of the neighborhood with his fragrance

6. Clinging to me were his branches and twigs
And the guards of that neighborhood shouted "The aroma! The aroma!"

7. So I said an apparition visited after his abandonment
And they said "The wounded loved one is hurt by the aroma"

8. So I said "Trust the one who broke my heart will heal it"
And after three days a merchant came to the neighborhood

9. Saying "That intense musk, bring it out and diffuse it!"
So they said "Did an apparition come spreading

10. The shirt of Joseph, so it smelled with its diffusion?"
And she is not like a female ostrich, whenever he passes by

11. He turns his neck toward her in her confusion
She sings when she listens to him pleasing her

12. Her necklace boiling with the folds of his chest
She plays with him sometimes fearing his capture

13. And sometimes is annoyed by his constant aloofness
She walks with him in the garden for a while and another time

14. She stays heavy next to the shelters and the lotus trees
You see him procumbent on the ground in the dust

15. Never satiated by the cheeks in his killing
He loves me more intensely than his gentle apparition

16. And I long for him even more if I'm blessed by his visit
Take me by the hand, oh companions of the night of agony

17. Perhaps an apparition will come rest even if unwillingly
To distance what is between the sleeper and my eyes

18. And what is between my passionate heart and its patience
Sleep has left me, taking back its apparition

19. A prisoner, so sleep has escaped me entirely
And how can slumber return to me, consumed with agony

20. My brimming tears flowing with their drops
I have appointed the white nights to be with me, for I

21. Have blamed the moonlit night for them and its full moon
And how many hands I have for the night of his apparition

22. The darkness lowered its shelters' curtains upon us
Tell about me the apparition that traveled by night

23. Visiting, seducing before the rise of its dawn
For the love of the phantom's manners from the creation of passion

24. Is the way of the black night to conceal its secret