1. I was alone before you, then I was afflicted by one
Whose love the days would not praise me for

2. She is the image of the world's flower illustrated
In the best of people, in retreat and advance

3. I entrust my eye from her whenever a face
Of beauty emerges that meets no misfortune

4. So the eye sees nothing it rejoices in
Until you see what I have entrusted as an image

5. Sleep from love, I from you am in wakefulness
Sleep has become dear, and care has stirred confusion

6. No night was long with your mention that kept me awake
Your love is longer than my night though it be long

7. Remember that I forgot our covenant the night
When in intimacies we fear no anklet

8. And we do not fear the words of one envious over us
Except suspicions from a trinket when it rings