1. My love Laila is worried and pensive
From a passionate lover, my sadness and sleeplessness

2. The day I saw a raven fallen
The worst that flew over the worst tree

3. Plucking feathers over my crying
Once clipped from the palm grove

4. And a gazelle ran by me chasing her
With soft eyelids from thecow-eyed ladies

5. Behind her a young male gazelle at dawn
I met him once wearing a belt

6. Her eyes are hurting my eyes
With the most beautiful eyelashes of the cow-eyed ladies

7. She does not recognize her lover
Unless she hears good about him

8. Whenever I wipe a tear from my eye
My eyes overflow with a stream of pearls