1. Love thrived for its leader
If not for the obstruction of barriers

2. And the love of Rim led me
With fluttering forelocks and fleeing

3. Like the full moon on the night of the tenth
And fourteenth in its ascension

4. He started to glance at us
With his eyelids and forehead

5. So he hunted me to my dove
His coldness causing me apprehension

6. Thus I stood facing an enemy
Hardhearted like granite stone

7. I cannot escape
From his lightning and thunder

8. And the army of love surrounds me
With its horses and soldiers

9. So if I go right
I fear the falling of promises

10. And if left then death
I must inevitably enter

11. And if I go back
I fear the roar of lions

12. And a tall mountain blocks my eyes
So how can I climb it?

13. And beneath my feet an ocean
With passions flowing in its depths

14. And above my head a watcher
Masked in his iron armor

15. Unsheathing his sword at me
Frightening me with its unsheathing

16. So I do not lift my eyes
Fearing the blow of his iron

17. And I have the humility of the worshipper
In his monastery on feast day

18. As if I have lost my way
Wandering confused in the desert

19. If he shows me a path
I would take the path of his plains

20. So woe to me, how do I escape
From the red death and the black?

21. Nothing except my occupation
With the generosity of Moses' right hand

22. For by it I have dispelled
The fear of many fears

23. Never once after another
Do I cease counting them

24. The days of my envious foes
Lasting while the envious last

25. The tolerant sang of Moses
In his yearning and chant

26. And how could he not chant
Except by his faith and belief?