1. I see you, I see you melancholy, I see you
Yearning for the lightening, I see, I see you

2. And you seek from others
A cure, while your cure is your illness

3. So if you asked the healer about your illness
He would not cure you, no he would not cure you

4. You are deaf to the secrets of love
Make yourself hear, make yourself hear them

5. And the white you think is silver
Spilled out shining, spilled out

6. When I taste its musk in kisses
It seems it tells of musk in kisses

7. It was set up with splendor and beauty
To snare hearts, to snare them

8. Sweetest union and garden, do you see
The garden of bees sweeter for me or your garden?

9. So grant me before loss a kiss
I am yours, I am yours

10. What would hurt you if you would
Let me kiss your mouth once?

11. Without your love life is not living
And death is not dying to me

12. I knew loss before its time
I would not have known it but for loving you

13. O parting of lovers, what has happened
That you have turned away?

14. It gave you life’s wine from a gentle
Pure chalice, it gave you to drink

15. And gifted you in first night’s darkness
With well-being, till dawn shone on you

16. When its twinkling laughter smiles
Like lightning flashing when it weeps

17. As if the palms of virgins
In the evening cooled your fever

18. A youth who surpassed the kings of all
Times in his two states, intimacy or war

19. He leads the delegates before asking
The spurred camels altogether and the racers

20. He has steps to match the Pleiades
Where doubters compete with doubters

21. A peak disdaining the zeal of the obstinate
And exceeding the bounds of glory, exceeding them

22. And by what you attained of judgment
The whole world became smooth for your staff

23. And how many an aspiration you had
That followed upon sublime aspirations!

24. Humans were favored by the Lord of Men
In creation, when you are one of them, righteous

25. Lower than it in wisdom from my brother
In its weaving when it wove

26. If you look with the eye of experience
You see no rhymes in it longing for you