1. O beauty of youth and joy of souls
Tell us of your ill-omened husband

2. Speak to us yourself of his blindness
And describe to me love through perception

3. Tell us of the enchanting flame
And a beauty that makes the free man a slave

4. And the madness of the blind when he implores
As he lives for his fire like the Magi

5. O beauty discarded and cast away in the soil
Oh injustice of fortunes and blind fate

6. And my affliction is that I call it injustice
When it is a word not found in the dictionary

7. Alas, the cruelty of nature made a crack
Darkness in a place of light it created

8. Without intention for his eye it seized
A crevice in its obscured space

9. A crevice through which cunning peeks
And deceit and malice leak out

10. Our rising in a rising it did not weigh
Like the feeble wick in the lantern

11. Like the humiliated ox when they tied him
And you see them wrap him in rags

12. So if he disobeys them and they beat him
And he walks to the singing of the cowherd

13. And you see him say, dripping with hatred
An animal wanting to attack

14. May God be sufficient for you, you lived seeing the earth
So remain in it, keeping the sanctity of the sun's light