1. I found my promised day in you,
And met my ideal sought in you.

2. My joy in you is like a child's,
Playing, making every day a feast.

3. My joy in you is like a bird's
Filling with song the listening valleys.

4. I delighted in its ringing, and it fluttered triumphantly,
A proud migrant in the open sky.

5. In a procession of its heart and its beloved,
Eyes mistook it wandering alone.

6. My joy in you is like a lost one's
Who traverses the barren wastes astray,

7. And there appears to him, after estrangement,
A loving shelter spreading wide its shade.

8. How wondrous is the world the love breathed into,
And made anew a fresh-bloomed garden.

9. All its marvels and most wondrous of all
Is a youth enraptured only by your beauty.

10. Rivals in passion, vying in submission,
Each claims you as his own beloved.

11. Jealous, angry, each sees you as his lover;
All worship alone at your feet.

12. How wondrous is the faith suffusing my heart,
Like dawn suffusing the vacant sky.

13. You tore my doubts away and I found rest
In eyes teaching me faith and oneness.