1. Behold, the night has come, so let us go
And stroll along the sandy shores

2. The evening breeze steals a scent
From far-off, verdant gardens of reverie

3. The clever sunset has imagined its lord
So it tells of the city of dreams

4. From it wafted unseen flowers
Of illusions into the imagination

5. Behind the fence, a jasmine flower
Flirted with the beams of evening

6. The breeze spread its secret as it blew
Through meadows of billowing awning

7. Corridors of darkness and light
Formed by the hand of wraiths

8. An ethereal nightingale nested in it
Pouring out his tender, pure melody

9. These flowers at night are dreaming
Of the orange trees' scent behind the fence

10. Of the water's murmur, the rosy dusk
And the gentle whispering breeze

11. Dew and shadows slumber in the water
And this beam behind the clouds

12. Some of its tunes gracefully manifest
In these bodies

13. Before this life, I used to pray
Oh my life, for your worshipped beauty

14. In you I shed my tears in song
In you I knelt my forehead in worship

15. And upon the altar of love I approached
With my soul in meekness and piety

16. But then I saw this was too little
So after that I approached with my tears

17. You revelled in the temple of reverie
A goddess and I was one of your servants

18. How many songs full of tunes did I send
That respond sadly to your melodies

19. You were the dawn and I was its mist
That spread in its bright horizon

20. And life descended a flame
And you came, life itself, a goddess

21. You are a sacred, celestial melody
Drifting from a world of light

22. My soul heard its heavenly rhythm
And awoke in the temple of sorrows

23. You are an illuminated, golden dream
That floated on the skyline of an enchanted world

24. And was revealed on the precipices of my soul
With a wing of good tidings

25. You are a rosy, winged fragrance
That perfumed the soul in the swoon of rapture

26. Your sweet aroma flowed in the imagination
From flowers on an unknown shore

27. You are a sacred shadow, you are a cloister
That hovers in the hill of dreams

28. The swoon covered the soul in its serenity
And it wandered from the world of pain

29. You are a moss-covered cottage in the highlands
Moonlit, eternal in reverie

30. My weary soul fell asleep, delighted,
In it, grazing on the dawn of this beauty

31. You are brooding silence, boundless space
Encircled darkness, daylight

32. Lethargy in which life stirs
And the firmament sings at its dawn

33. You are all of life, you are my being
You are my soul that I saw in my slumber

34. You are my embodied inspiration, you are my melody
Oh heaven above my life's heaven

35. You tempted me to find you
Behind the fence of life, atop its hill

36. But I searched for you long
And finally fell asleep beneath your shelter

37. Awaken me from the swoon, and sing to me
My angel, at the rise of my life

38. And guide me to the light, else
Let me plunge into my darkness

39. And pour on my wintry world
The light of warmth that destroys my deadly gloom

40. And lift me like a sacred temple
In which drift the ghosts of your beauty

41. A tent of song from my pain
So listen, for I will sing to you now

42. Passionately in my solitude and gloom