1. We have searched for happiness, but
We never found its enchanted cottage

2. We always ask the nights about it
It is the secret of life and the riddle of ages

3. My heart has long told me about it
In the nights of my childhood and youth

4. They have often portrayed to my eyes its meeting
And spread news of it in my dreams

5. It is sometimes just the fragrance, beauty
And songs and lights

6. It only lives at the gate of a palace
Built by the hands of wealth and luxury

7. And it is sometimes in abstinence from the pleasures of life
Among ascetics and monks

8. It only lives on the rock of worship
Between praying and faith

9. And it is sometimes in sin and worldly pleasures
And in evil, harm and strife

10. It only settles in a mean heart
Seeking evils and sins

11. And it is to some in the law of a shepherd
Who spends his life on the slopes of mountains

12. Singing with the flock when he wants
Under the shade and shadows

13. And it is to others the daughter of nobility
And refined art and beauty

14. It only lives on the mouth of a flirtatious one
Who sings or a gifted poet

15. And it is sometimes in love inspired for it
By Cupid's arrow in every lover's heart

16. It only lives on the lip of a lover who sings
The melody of love in life

17. They talked to me about it a lot, but
I never found it though I searched long

18. I still spend the nights searching
And sing of it to the beautiful existence

19. My life passed futilely and I still walk
On these sad shores

20. I found nothing in the sands but
Remains of thorns! Oh deluded wish

21. Where are your shining shells, oh shore?
Then where is your promised treasure?

22. Have mercy on us, bring a treasure
That is what this existence hopes for

23. Bring it, enough of your cold, barren sand
Deceiving us, and mocking is enough from you

24. Oh a dream we want to get close to
And it still stays away, oh shore

25. The story of happiness no longer tempts me
So let me be on the shore of sorrows

26. In vain I hope to find the treasure
Nothing but the silence of life

27. Where are the smiles of wishes in this life
And the bliss of joys?

28. How can the happy live in it
When it is nothing but a sea in the darkness and winds

29. My search was long, oh Lord, where do you think
That happy carefree one is, where can he be found?

30. Around me are only shrouds of the universe
There is no end to their crying and sorrow

31. Every day the dead walk in throngs
Weeping towards the world of darkness

32. Oh legend of immortality, for the perished is nothing
But graves and pains

33. Oh echoing wailing on earth, when
Will the crying and screaming stop?

34. And when will misery end, when will this universe
That has tasted torment for ages find rest?

35. A world where everyone's face wrinkles
And spends days in sadness and despair

36. The years made it drink bitter poison
And it lost sight and mind

37. Oh legend of happiness, tell me
Talk to me about your hidden secret

38. Where can I find you? Where is your hidden abode?
On the horizon or beyond existence?

39. I walked alone under the stars for long
Asking the night and the shrouds about you

40. Alas, I did not find you on the rocky shore
Where the waters never cease weeping

41. Where thorns and roses wither
Under the eyes of days and destinies

42. Where purity fades and night comes
With the madness of winds and storms

43. Where sheep spend their days bleating
And no grass grows in the empty meadows

44. Forever chasing mirages and complaining
Of the stinginess of a deceitful fate

45. Where ravens live, and the missing nightingale
Falls in its concealed nest

46. And the hateful owl sings to the moon
And hides between rocks

47. Where clouds remain in the sky as symbols
Of a life whose darkness does not fade

48. Where winds keep howling a tune
That mocks the fates of us

49. Where the voice of life shouts at the living:
What under the gloom do you seek?

50. Look, everything on earth weeps
So awake, company of dreamers