1. O masters, mentioning you is my motto
With you lies my paradise and my hellfire

2. I who since my youthfulness began
Have shed my youthfulness out of love for you

3. So yearning became sweet to me through my passion
So provide forgiveness, O you I take refuge in

4. And let flow your kindness, O your chosen one
For long have I followed in your footsteps

5. And tasted the flavor of madness in you
So it was sweeter than dignity

6. Observe the slope from my tears
And dwell in the curve of my ribs

7. For how much I have humbled myself in my agony
If my love for you is my submission

8. Then this humiliation of passion is no shame
Patience has reached its end

9. And the lover has not seen his desire
He has become a singer of his passion

10. With his soul in the hands of another
So it is right that he defies

11. By God, by God, O my masters
My state with you does not change

12. So if I am oblivious to you
Do not praise me for my endurance

13. It is your lowliness, praise my constraint