1. O you who are absent from my sight
None other than you comes to my mind

2. I know your loneliness
And mine is the same, if not more

3. My heart cannot rest without you
And my tongue never tires of you

4. You are like a beloved among people
Who is remembered, praised and thanked

5. And whenever a northerly wind blows
I ask it about you and inquire

6. O goodness in its scent when it blows
And goodness in what it narrates and recalls

7. I understand from its sweet breaths
An expression of you, the ambergris