1. Does he not know that I spent the night sleepless
For my eyelids since we parted do not meet

2. And that my love since he left keeps company with me
And that my patience since he appeared has taken leave of me

3. And nothing led my passions and confused my thoughts
But the driver of the camels the day we parted

4. I fell in love with a people, strangers, and they bid farewell
Oh would that I were dead and had not fallen in love

5. And would that when my eye saw them it had clung
To other than them, even to the shining lightning