1. O water held back behind the light
How strange you deceived the enchanted one with your abundance

2. O beauty, it is enough for me to be deceived by sorcery
Or enough for the charms to be deceived by falsity

3. Is that the window of passing, and these
Balconies, or is it a world of light?

4. And there you are, or is it majesty, or passion
Colored images on crystal

5. I thought it was a world there for a passerby
Who clung to it or a lovelorn poet

6. And I almost thought they were meanings shortened
Into a word that passion poured into a cycle

7. Delighted by your beautiful rising and my stance
When that was an upright, frightened stance

8. I forgot myself in the beauty and the gazes were absent
From my thoughts, enthralled by you

9. And by the spell of the window of passing, and beneath it
A resting place for babies or a yard for maidens

10. And from behind its skies it appeared
Like water held back behind the light

11. And your beloved's playfulness behind its
Transparent glass, teasing the enchanted young man