1. Peace upon the abode of that fever and those dwellings,
Peace greeted by the morning and notes of song.

2. Peace, and would that the winds had borne
To it my heart and love had carried me!

3. I stood weeping with longing, for God a stand
Where my soul contests with me, and yearning kills me.

4. I wept and my copious tears rained
For my state, my solitude and my wanton ways.

5. My friend, the days of youth are short
And they are but a shifting kingdom.

6. Friends mar them with estrangement and pining
And hopes cut through them like the stages of a journey.

7. Our reunion was nothing but parting for a company
Bidding farewell to a waning moon, following a waning moon.

8. God has decreed I should not forget the past
And so I have made light of their troth, even if loyalty fails me.

9. By God, may my oath forget me when I ask
My heart for the love of generous souls!

10. Ask about me of my watcher though he stays
My heart, and would my heart had been my questioner!

11. Never did I cease to make your rare qualities
A spring to which every eminent one comes down to drink.