1. Sleep, sleep, for sleep other than this
Is not sweet for children's eyes.

2. You in the cradle are like a dawn flower
Revived by the hand of dew in the valley.

3. O Happiness! Those are the eyes of maidens
Smiling, all for Happiness.

4. Pouring in the purity of your heart a light
From the lantern of souls and livers.

5. Sleep and dream, for your dream is sweet,
O Happiness, like the cool brook.

6. Let your affectionate mother lull you
With the innocence of yearning and singing.

7. O angel, you in the cradle are not human
As is man at maturity.

8. You are still in your bed, a soul
Shackled by the hand of inanimateness.

9. You know not of worship but
Heaven has cast you among the worshippers.

10. Did you there commit a sin, so you are punished
With banishment to the world of oppression?

11. O Happiness, tomorrow we will see you a girl
Pouring love with all her heart.

12. And youth pours in the cup of your eyelids
The wine of beauty for the infatuated.

13. So beware then of the one who spies from the cup -
The eye of life in ambush.

14. Do not indulge fancy, for it is but
The whims of souls in bodies.

15. O Happiness, tomorrow you will see fit bodies
Being sold in auction like chattel.

16. And eyes pouring on beauty
Vermin of vileness like the kohl of rot.

17. Protect, protect the purity of this
Branch, the branch of burgeoning childhood.

18. And let it grow, for it bears fruits -
Sweet fruits for every snarer’s basket.

19. Only the fruits of purity live on
From the cradle to the day of calling.

20. And when evening passes over them
They are scattered on the pillows.

21. Sleep, O Happiness, for sleep is sweet
To a heart that has not tasted awareness.

22. And smile, for life smiles in the cradle,
And peace slumbers beneath the pillow.