1. Eyes upon a bewildered night whose stars
Stretched on until the morn denied its watcher

2. A beast where a star loses its way
And its frightened full moon avoids it

3. So have mercy on one confounded within himself
His pains appease him, and his regrets

4. As if thrown amidst surging waves
Now afloat, now pulled down again

5. Upon the likes of this I spent the night tearfully weeping
And drank tears whose taste could not be sipped

6. And remembered noble loved ones whom time, so cruel
In its afflictions, has made remote

7. Remembering them wrings my heart so I restrain it
Fearing its ardour might become inflamed

8. How many dove haunts wept, exciting me to tears
With their weeping, generous with their welling tears

9. Why weep when you are parted?
Neither will time bring you its afflictions

10. You have provoked in me a passion, though I'd not forgotten,
But its tribulations against me multiplied

11. The night stretched on so long I thought
The verse telling of the morn’s arrival shrouded by darkness

12. But then dawn broke radiantly
And the dark beast's confusions gave way

13. The birds twittered in their boughs
And the wounded heart’s concerns diminished

14. Then I knew that however protracted is the gloom
Dawn’s sword will surely smite it.