1. Stop at the abodes whose traces have been effaced
By spirits and rain that have obliterated its features

2. Between the two meadows flows a torrent between them
To the hills, to what lies beyond the mounds

3. To your eyes whenever you look appear from it
The dwellings of the living as whitened bones and decaying

4. And coagulated around a goblet they have devoted themselves to
Adorned and decked out yet fragmented from it

5. The homes of the living have, after their inhabitants,
Become pasture for gazelles and cows

6. They have changed them to another abode and altered it
The cycle of time in its recurrence alters

7. I stood among them long that I might question them
But the abode has no knowledge or information

8. The abode that a moment guided me to see
And destiny may lead the youth to the moment

9. A cheek whose image illuminates the darkness of the house
As the moon illuminates the darkness of the watchtower

10. Perfectly formed, its shoulders were not created
To fill the bosom - it is perfume its pockets scatter

11. Curved of leg, its anklets finely clipped
Satisfying, supple, made tender and broken

12. Slender, twisting, its brows smoothly arched
Nearly sprouting wings from the heaviness of its buttocks

13. Parted over polished white teeth in order
Sweet to kiss, for it the lips have polish

14. Like musk white hair mingled with bees' wax
Snow blended with the grayness of crumbling walls

15. She who robbed me of my reason and refused
Though singers may join us, betrayal remains

16. I had been secluded from her but a moment destined me
For the appointed time when a look summoned me to healing

17. I and whoever the pilgrims' driver terrified
With slender stallions never made pilgrimage or glory

18. I don't divert my love for you or give it
To another I join though the trees have leafed

19. You are the hope, my soul's discourse without
In all, you are hearing and sight

20. Would that he who blamed us for love had undergone
Some of what we undergo though not a tenth

21. So he might taste what we tasted and prevent him
From what ravishes the soul and wakefulness

22. Send me no messenger, do not abandon me
And beware of your promised time and prudent caution

23. I have heard men of my family who are
Enemies behind my back have vowed

24. To kill you - but He who can protect you from murder protects you
And God is your protector against the group's resolve

25. A secret two conceal between them
And every secret beyond two spreads

26. If a man does not watch his composure
Eyes detect the evil of suspicion and he is notorious