1. When my heart grew harsh and my ways narrowed,
I made hope of Your forgiveness a ladder.

2. My sin overwhelmed me, but when I compared it
To Your pardon, my Lord, Your pardon was greater.

3. You whose pardon for sin has never ceased,
You go on pardoning graciously and generously.

4. Without You, no worshipper could withstand Iblis,
So how when he misled Your intimate Adam?

5. Praise be to the knowing mystic whose streaming tears
Flow copiously from the excess of his fervor.

6. When the night spreads its darkness,
He holds a wake for himself, fearing intensely.

7. Shouting, when in remembrance of his Lord,
And in all else in the world, mute.

8. And he remembers days that passed in his youth,
When in ignorance he sinned.

9. So he became companion to care all day,
Brother to wakefulness, when the night darkens,

10. Saying: My Beloved, You are my request and goal.
You suffice seekers as request and profit.

11. Are You not He who fed me and guided me
And never ceased to favor me and bless me?

12. May He of bounty forgive my slip
And veil my sins and what went before.