1. Does the night traveler know when the guide leads the way,
That resolve comes from ribs and hearts so steadfast?

2. Do the walkers in that caravan know
That purpose lies between souls and bodies?

3. Since they left, my heart has composed
Elegies and songs of sadness in their wake.

4. Their dwellings are visited in every far reach,
And their veil, if it knew, would better love the visitor.

5. Between souls lies what would suffice you,
If you sought the depths, against traversing the wasteland.

6. How many times I recite poetry to my loved ones, and they to me
In India - oh how far my recital has removed me!

7. Were I to confide in my soul, it would make them hear
My words as if they were witnesses though absent.

8. Whoever's goal is less than the night traveler's
Should desire less than waves and mirages.

9. Beneath the Pleiades, if the beloved wanders astray
Then my bliss - what an excellent guide he finds!

10. A passion as lovely as if the age knew
That nothing else would settle in the breast but the companion.

11. Sami of lofty lineage - his origins
Have no lack of support in glory's realm.

12. Smoother than the evening shadows of the valley are his features,
And at the darkness of night, the rock of the valley.

13. If people measured their status
Against the lofty, they would need for help in it ladders.

14. O you whose return would replace our past
Erasing thereby the burden of epochs and ruins.

15. That they hid you did no harm to the veiled stars
Nor did the sheathing of a sword harm it when sheathed.

16. No harm that fortune's tryst is delayed for long
For the sweetest water to drink is from the rain-channel.

17. May your nights' resentments be folded away,
And may their cup be drained of bitterness and grudges.

18. May time resume peace unperturbed,
For time can wear the raiment of opposites.

19. If fate had favored a people with grace,
None would meet the likes of you with felicity.