1. O forest of Bologna, my friend
I have pacts with you, unfulfilled pledges

2. An era has passed for passion's sake
In your shade, can it return?

3. A dream I want to come back
But the return of my dreams is far

4. If time could bring it back
Can youth return what is past?

5. O Bologna's forest, my home
Sorrow grows with memories

6. At the sight of you, my heart fluttered
And the sturdy heart trembled

7. I see you are harsher than I knew
You neither sway nor bend

8. How stony, O inanimate one
How eternally thankless

9. If only you recalled the days we had
And time was as we wanted

10. We'd come to you at night's gloom
And the gloom would ward off others

11. To say what we'd say
With none but you to bring it back

12. My words are passion and youth
Their talk, melody and vows

13. We'd stroll and roam your lands
With the winds there, bowing

14. Grief made the birds land
People slept, and existence too

15. We'd spend the night sociably
Lit by the one star above

16. At every corner, a stop
At each angle, a seat

17. We'd drink, and passion
Newborn between our eyes

18. Amulets from hearts
Cushions for it from cheeks

19. The branch bows in open space
Blessed is such prostration!

20. The star watches us with an eye
Unwavering and intent

21. Until the tryst called us away
And the sturdy union dispersed

22. We remained, and between us
A sea, and beyond it, a hand's span

23. My night is in Egypt, hers
In the West, where she's happy