1. They claimed you unoriginal in your melodies
They wronged you, rather they were ignorant of you, oh Karawani

2. Yesterday I heard from you what I had never known before
Among the melodies of the past

3. And you narrated to me yesterday what you had not narrated before
Of a melody, eloquence and meaning

4. My complaints about you, even as I thank you, are
A secret you insist on keeping confidential

5. My gratitude to you, even as I complain of you, is
A secret you delay for the best occasion

6. A treasure to be protected - so bring me some of its beads
The provision of hearts and adornment of ears

7. I do not see you though the paths of prohibition have long
Been a revelation never glimpsed by eyes

8. I am in your wing where it disappeared with the darkness
And if my body settled on earth

9. I am in your tongue wherever passion set it free
Playfully even if happiness conquered my tongue

10. I am in your conscience wherever it laid bare
A secret my conscience's time would conceal

11. I dispute with you from the small heart
The throbbing of spring with that throbbing

12. I am with you in the eye that bestows worries
And is stingy with vigils and passions

13. Fly in the dark with a brain that if it grasped
The rocky plateau would take flight with the birds

14. Your joy in the unfettered course of passion teaches you
To do without the wings and determination of feathers

15. Yesterday you taught me all your secret
The secret of happiness in transient existence

16. The secret of happiness is aversion and love
In you, the discordant scales are reconciled

17. You are the cosmos in the essence of its system
As if you in it were the hunted guilty

18. You are equal like friend yet between you
Is a distance as adversaries grow apart

19. The flier does not carry the load of the fallen
The burden of man is the stumbling of brethren

20. None of you is scholar or learned
No, nor advanced or regressing

21. Alike in life so each of you
Is groping darkness calling with songs

22. Separate in station while your pace
In departure gathers you like sheep

23. As if for each a copy was transcribed
Of these atmospheres and homelands

24. He is partner in one portion
And he the sole with no second

25. Nature hoards from him you are given livelihood
Not from any race between you or wager

26. You are the children of birds glorifying in the gloom
In you lies the priesthood of the righteous priest

27. You sold the slumber of the dormant and his sound sleep
And with it bought the waking of the vigilant

28. Say little I desired words, oh Karawani
In empty chatter and wise patience

29. I will live like you for myself and the world together
And speak like you how can they pair

30. And I will remain crowded in life with my mind
While avoidance of crowds suits my place

31. You have changed me and twenty years will not change
The style of a poet's rhetoric

32. Joy of a world no sorrow clouds its serenity
Other than the joys of man

33. In isolation I and the beloved find safety
The world of beauty while we are apart