1. God in creating is gentle and sympathetic
Hearts pass away but yours remains, O tormentor of my soul

2. Guard your beauty from us - we are but mortal men
Made of dust while such beauty is spiritual

3. Or seek out a sphere where an angel can house you
One who took no partner in this fleeting world

4. Flowing in light, enraptured by your image
Delighting in the adornments of gentle beauty

5. When you smile the universe shows its ornaments
And when you breathe you bestow the scent of sweet basil

6. Beam from the sky of glory, radiant
With a laughing vision of brilliant coquetry

7. May tears cease in you, impassioned one
Neither sun nor breeze arise at the same time

8. O you whose sight I migrated from homelands to see
So I left, longing more than any longing for homelands

9. Do you remember my yearning through time for them
And my shedding tears in recalling them, O companion

10. And my envying the bird I cried out to it
If only the generous one who gave you would give me