1. A strand I snatched,
As though I plucked it,

2. I owned the rule of time entirely,
When I possessed that lock.

3. If the winds contest me,
Its affair I gather it together,

4. In my fist fearful,
Lest trespassing I hurl it back.

5. And in a place not in,
Imagination it flowed, I hid it,

6. I hid it where when,
Passion is delirious I see it.

7. I confined it near my eyes,
If I please I look upon it,

8. As though in my sight,
And eyelash I concealed it.

9. This is to me a picture,
Of our state I portrayed it.

10. You are like this lock,
The dark one since I knew it.

11. I swear by love and your,
Cheeks those years I lived them,

12. As though I in the garden of,
Paradise had spent them.