1. O little turtledove of the west, how fate has singled you out!
It watered your fellow turtledove with drops for your sake.

2. We were two chaste sisters, O my sister!
But the one in authority has ruled for one of us.

3. We both have erased the traces, no trace of him remains,
No eye perceives him, no trace remains.

4. Except that I know longing and patience,
While you know no longing, no patience.

5. My streaming tears bear witness to me,
While you have no copious tears, no trickling.

6. My lute has sucked away my agony,
While the sap still flows in your lute's green wood.

7. Oh, how long we traveled to your home!
But now the wine has journeyed to the vintner's.

8. Time will bring us back in your shadow's shelter,
Two cloaks, its edges embroidered with flowers.

9. A lover and his love - who will join us and say:
"Welcome! This new moon, that full moon?"

10. God watered that time - but it's passed away,
After it shut the door of union against all meetings.

11. Would that when it died, we'd died in its death!
What excuse has death to part us now?

12. Was not Majnun famed for dying of love?
And Qays and Oroub - all died so, and Ghaylan!