1. And to tenderness I bend the abodes of separation
With the bending of the neck submissively

2. So I visit intimacy in the lowering of living
And safety from the incidents of time

3. Blessed is Karkh, blessed is life, nay but
Blessed is the monastery, blessed are the two willows

4. Spring has appeared in the robes of flowers
And the pigeon has tuned the adornments of songs

5. The faces of the meadows are adorned so they have become
While adorning, more beautiful than beautiful faces

6. The hand of spring has clothed them
In a coolness like the Yemini perfume

7. O my friend, they have given me pain
Giving me the blond, do not refuse me

8. Take the water away, take the water away, arise
Come near and come near, girls of splendor

9. Quench me with every color from comfort
Upon all these colors

10. Green of hue like emerald in redness
Clear complexioned like purple

11. And buds like moist pearls
Separated among carnelian and coral

12. And blossoms like dinars adorned
With the flowers of lavender and rosemary

13. As if the nemosine had put on them
Robes of anemone and nemosine