1. When her beauty was veiled from my sight,
My eyes became fixed upon the moon.

2. As if in my eyes they were both alike -
Radiant lights, each a likeness of the other.

3. We loved her not for any purpose,
But fate allowed it beyond my sight.

4. A browned complexion has my heart in its grip,
So my eyes are ever upon the browned.

5. Be she gently blowing musk-scented breezes,
Or smiling with a radiance like pearls,

6. A sun traveled, shaming the bashful moon,
A gazelle glanced with her magic at the maidens.

7. She was absent a while, and my thoughts were disturbed,
My feelings aflame in yearning for her.

8. She left, and longing disquieted her,
For the pilgrimage, not tarrying in travel.

9. She made the pilgrimage, completed a visitation,
Fortune met her, she came safe from harm.

10. The house, since she returned, is luminous,
My spirit obedient, for her sake, to life.