1. I complained to her, though I did not complain of my youthfulness,
So she said, “He who spends the night complaining is sick with love.”

2. When she refused to hear my complaints out of patience,
And I persisted till my heart began to flow,

3. She removed the veil from her cheeks,
And said, “Is it intimacy for us or forgetting?”

4. So I said to her as early signs
Of passion, leaving me no respite, hastened me,

5. “I bear witness before God that I have found solace,
But it now appears to me I have found renewal.”