1. Your love, O Salma, and the sanctity of what transpired
Between you and I of certain affection

2. I cannot be freed from the bond of passion, even if
I attempted that, my heart would not obey

3. And a flock of gazelles in a pond you'd think
Were houses on the water's horizon appearing and disappearing

4. My friend says, while love accompanies me
"Do you have any respite from this youth?"

5. And in your shed blood they waded, as you see
So I said to him “Leave them be, to wade and play”

6. Look at his cheek above it
His beard sends out spears

7. You see paradise in his cheek
But it is under the shadows of swords