1. For whom are those languid eyes withered,
And whose illusion is cushioned and carried?

2. O agonies of my heart in its youth,
And pillow of my eyes in the early nights.

3. My eyes lied, and my heart did not let
Its beats doubt or interpret.

4. O you ailing king, awake to find
Your pains among the returning ailing.

5. The day of return, how much I waited for you crying,
And sent my dreams to you as messengers.

6. I spoke of you, leaving no speaker,
And asked until I left no questioned.

7. And I drowned in beautiful hope, leaving
No imagined, sweet or hoped for.

8. And I cried from my despair over you, leaving
No freely flowing teardrop at the eyelids.

9. And I ask time the hidden, perhaps
It may heal deep sorrows or soothe anguish.

10. O time, whose secrets
Minds cannot reach or attain.

11. For God’s sake, say is there a moment beyond you
That gathered an emigrant beloved and a beloved?

12. A moment it is, and it is life, and whoever lives
Beyond it finds life superfluous.

13. Darkness passed with you filling my thoughts,
And dawn approached while I remained busy.

14. And day came upon a youth who spent the night with what
The day carried of burdens tiring.

15. And so is life burdensome if it is devoid
Of one who lightens its carried load.

16. Toil upon toil and I do not attain
Except successive hardship and leanness.

17. The polish of events changed the radiance in
My mind and clouded my polished thought.

18. And tribulations followed in the horizon of youth,
Leaving me no wholesome morning I see beautifully.

19. Precious youth is gone, and the grove is gone
That gave us the shade of faithful shadow.

20. Days fail me before you though my reason,
So when silent, all is said.

21. And my love rages, so if an uttered word
Stumbles out of my lips bashfully.

22. O you at whose spring I sipped the wine of love,
So it made me drink it fermented and turbid.

23. I did not heed what I tasted, fearing
To meet you with the hidden malady in ignorance.

24. The most agonizing of what the heart endured is a love
That kindled while its seed remained unknown.