1. Has not the time come for the bright full moon to rise
And illuminate the homelands and wildernesses?

2. So O absent one, nothing was absent but your face
And I forever have a yearning and grief for you

3. I will be thankful for the love that adorned my worship of you
Though in it there was humiliation and submission

4. I pray and in my youth there is tenderness
So all my prayers are done in your love, in devotion

5. O my loved ones! Will that life return
As it was when you all and I together were?

6. You said, "Spring is the time we promised we'd reunite"
But now spring has passed and it is another spring

7. My letters have been lost, O emigrants
And the messenger between us has grown weary and silent

8. So do not tap at my heart with rebuke, for it
Is as fragile as glass, easily shattered

9. I will cry though my tears bleed for you all
I cried in poetry that softened into tears

10. And my poetry was not lost on you when I recited it
Yes, and without you it wanders lost, yearning

11. I love the beautiful elegance of meaning and imagery
And in that elegance my poetry is elegant