1. Perhaps in the lives of lovers
There was hope or a ray of light

2. Perhaps they had that rapture
Between fantasy and whims

3. O shining shore of love
Spare us this talk about your children

4. Describe their softness and give them good news
Describe what is hidden behind your purity

5. Describe how the lover squeezes out
His longing for the one asleep to his misery

6. How fantasy plays with him and the night passes
Awake, drowning in his sighs

7. Describe the life of one possessed by love
So life seems to him a magical garden

8. And he goes with open arms to the light
Composing life into a book of poetry

9. He kisses the flowers in the fields and sings
Songs of love to the harvest nights

10. Dancing like a moth to the sweet moon
Free from despair and sorrow

11. Painting from his dreams a beautiful tomorrow
That fate cannot withstand

12. Wandering in his fantasies, unaware
That this life is horror and fire

13. In his hands a cup of wine he sings to
Making the day listen and drink

14. And on his lips a soft smile
That makes misery sing to him happily

15. Then the light fades one evening
And the drunk awakens from his reverie

16. So the field is withered, no flowers
No moths, nothing but darkness

17. Where are those dreams? How did love fade?
And where is the beloved peer?

18. Oh the betrayal of days that did not keep
Promise to a heart that reaped feeling

19. And life passes as the suffering lover's
Heart bleeds and face grows pale

20. Never does the imagination return
To the past, crying over lost love

21. Never does he gaze sadly at life
Beyond tears and sorrows

22. And see it as the wolf that tears at his heart
And man's humanity is cruel to sorrow

23. Never does he ask the gloomy darkness
His wandering mind, where are the tunes of my heart?

24. Where are my flowers and nightingale?
What did my love dreams lose?

25. Where is she on whom I poured
My life, my heart, my melody?

26. Where are those eyes that inspire my dreams
And erase the gloom from me?

27. Oh how memory wounds the poor heart
And revives his love and pain

28. Thus has absence vanquished him
Of what use are his complaints?

29. So let him find in imagination, poetry, and memory
A cure for his battered love

30. And let him live life in the fields of wheat and cotton
Under the glow of stars

31. Let him love the clouds, dawn, and day
And pass his days between hills

32. Singing, so he loves the music
Of flowers in love and over mountains

33. For fantasy life is more beautiful than the reality
Of love marred with ashes

34. What tempts you to shackles?
Ask Cupid about the misery of his captives

35. And the torture they undergo
How they live in hellish doubt

36. And night of deprivation and gloom
If their days pass deprived

37. They live suffering, tortured, confused
Complaining of fate and advancing time

38. Living unhappiest prisoners
And if the painful dream comes true

39. They turn from its magic hating it
And the light returns pitch black

40. The flowers revert to thorns and mud
So love fades and the flame of love, desire and longing die out

41. Happy is he who buries love and lives free, not confined
O tears of lovers, the world has had enough misery

42. So do not increase its sorrow
We have filled the beautiful universe with tears

43. And had our fill of its silence and darkness
So dry up, enough of the heartache of living

44. And life's torment and days
Enough the tears on this gloomy earth

45. Of the hungry and orphans
Dry up and banish Cupid's fantasy

46. And enough victims for love
Lovers will never attain but tears of love

47. Whose years are shrouded by death