1. Months passed, promised rainclouds,
And dusk grew darker in them.

2. The bridegroom of nature's wedding came,
Laughing in the trees' leaves.

3. Tickling the meadows' grass with dew,
And printing his colors on the flowers.

4. Building galleries on the hills
Mocking people's raving.

5. It's as if the genius jinn in them
Lived, and hung those images.

6. So youth, the call of life, softened,
Meeting the long-awaited dream.

7. On his lips Spring's smiles,
And in his heart other smiles.

8. And on a festival day of pure sky,
As if the sky a page of fences.

9. An evening looked over the hills,
And youths over them spread.

10. And saw a gazelle among the flowers,
Like Eve among delicious fruits.

11. Letting her glances roam in her Eden,
They knew good and evil blossoms.

12. She wore her lily dress,
On it a weave the color of green.

13. And cast on the grass a slender body,
Like a jasmine branch broken.

14. So he softly came to her, suffering
Showing on his frowning forehead.

15. And said, “The field has shed from it
The winter's gown and covered the stone.

16. And Spring has thrown over it a cloak,
In which nature's beauty is confined.

17. So why not shed the gown of nights,
And clothe your soul in the dress of innocence?

18. And why not resemble jasmine—
No sooner does it hide than it appears?

19. The flowers' smiles have washed
The blindness of barren winter.

20. And chastity returned to the hills,
In every plant a heart forgave.

21. So she said, “I'll try to forget
A past time, an imagination that passed.”

22. So he said, “What does this imagination represent?”
She said, “A passion stumbled.”

23. So he said, his eyes bulging,
“And this? She said, “A lover betrayed.”

24. “I forgave this lover,
And your God forgives what happened.

25. I forgave as the meadows' flowers forgave
A blaspheming winter.”

26. “But in me is regret like flames
Showing me life unlike sparks.

27. The breeze shook the branches,
Spreading the flowers' scents in the air.

28. When they awoke they confessed to her,
And a pure conscience shook them.

29. And evening on the hills
Breathed its ghosts in languor.

30. The setting sun mocked the shadows,
Lending its colors to the rocks' hollows.”

31. So Evening said, and in his heart
Hope dying, love blazing.

32. “I loved you madly, Gazelle,
My misfortune on Tyre's shores grew.

33. And you were in sickness carried away,
Showing you life as dark and light.

34. You misunderstood love, so you denied Spring,
You'll deny seeds' growth.”

35. “And whoever isn't fated to smell
Will deny even fragrances.”

36. So she said, “You're right, but I
Feel my heart dry as roots.”

37. “You see beauty in Spring,
And I see its flowers as sores.

38. You see life's color in a flower,
I see the color of graves in a flower.”