1. Sleep has fled, seeking refuge
From my madness, as if

2. It too has learned coldness
From the beloved.

3. Restrain the heart if it pines,
And blind the eye likewise

4. As your youth blinded your heart
With love until it was blinded.

5. Oh eye, you were for me
A ladder for passions,

6. Then you burdened me with longing -
No! And made me weep blood.

7. Then you befriended the Pleiades
And the star in the sky.

8. Strange - how has it not become
Lost in yearning like me?

9. If you were not wretched,
Oh eye, I'd not be lovelorn.

10. Love pitched its tent
In my heart and settled.

11. So it will not depart forever
Even if I say "be gone!"