1. Oh, if only time would return to us,
And we gathered again in our homes,

2. We would open the doors of bliss joyfully,
And spite the envious of us.

3. Where are we in our comfort and ease,
With fortunes of wished-for pleasures?

4. Where are the days of ardent passion,
And union that bent the bough?

5. Nights have passed and gone,
And pledges for us are fulfilled.

6. How much delight of love's fruits
Did we reap, the sweetest of harvests!

7. By God, I keep the pact between us,
I still tend what is between us.

8. By the right of love, my eyes have not seen
A more beautiful gaze than yours.

9. A heartbroken lover returning to the ruins,
Whose eyelids senility has abandoned.

10. He is far from his homelands – what a
Lover parted from his home!

11. All his wings conceal
Are tears his eyes openly declare.

12. Love wrote in him a writ,
And I see tears as its title.

13. I outlined on his cheek lines,
So his secret openly showed.

14. Will union return to him?
Will time again show him favor?