1. Your book was the key to happiness
And gave me good news of things to come

2. As if I was a prisoner, freed
By the prince's signature releasing bonds

3. My heart was blind to its guidance
Yet with your book I saw the light

4. Like the prophet Jacob when his blindness lifted
As the scent of Joseph's shirt drew near

5. I've never seen anyone so inclined
My eyes dazzled by your light so pure

6. Had I but known you were my visitor
Good fortune would have smiled on me

7. For a gathering of intimacy and charm
Where souls embrace from shore to shore

8. I wrote, though tears blotted out my words
My letter sighed and moaned to you

9. What's in my heart is witnessed to
By teardrops between line and line

10. We've kept our secret till books revealed
What lay inside our inmost souls