1. O night of reunion, will you return
And fulfill the promises you made?

2. For lovesickness has put me to sleep
And my jealous rivals rejoice at my torment.

3. Tears pour from my eyes like rain
Streaming down my cheeks.

4. O reproacher, leave me be, for I
Am lost, absent from my very existence.

5. I am weary of such great suffering,
My eyes weeping floods of tears.

6. I have devoted myself madly
To the love of a graceful gazelle.

7. For me, her abandonment is hell
And her union, paradise forever.

8. In her distance and closeness
I remember our past vows.