1. Peace upon peace upon our noble companions,
Peace from a yearning one who now tells his tale,

2. Peace from a passionate yearner,
Whose youth melted away through parting,

3. And who harbored longing while residing in the valley.
Oh you who quenched our thirst with a draft of sorrow,

4. May your Lord now quench you with water from the clouds.
The shrine is too far for us to reach, yet we're not deprived,

5. Of visiting your phantom in the darkness.
You kept your lifelong pact until your phantom learned

6. To hold fast to reins that time's passage could not loosen.
May God watch over the dear nights that came to us

7. Like a dream, then vanished before dawn.
We hoped they'd last, but they replied: We'll last

8. Only if you cease hoping for permanence.
For every frankincense tear there is a time

9. We see it lead men, though they have no halter.
No chance you lost can be restored to you -

10. How can a loosed arrow be called back?
Yet affection may grow into faithfulness,

11. As the new moon grows to its fullness.
If the beginnings of every matter are fair,

12. We hope their endings will also be fair.