1. If there is basil and fruit in summer
The earth is inflamed and the air illuminated

2. And if the palm trees are flowering in autumn
The earth is bare and the air contracted

3. And if in winter the rain is continuous
The earth is restricted and the air restricted

4. Time is only the bright spring when
Spring comes, light and illumination come to you

5. The earth an emerald and the air a pearl
And the plants turquoise and the water crystalline

6. The plants never lack a cup from its clouds
So the plants are twofold—intoxicated and fermented

7. For us there the rose, folded, girded
Between the gatherings and scattered when scattered

8. And a sorcerous narcissus to the sights, not as
If it from the blindness of sights is bewitched

9. This is the violet, this the jasmine and this the
Lily-of-the-valley, this a lily famous in beauty

10. The clouds therein keep shedding their pearls
So the earth is laughing and the birds delighted

11. Wherever the moon-like and alluring one turned
There she sings, and chirping sparrow and humming hornet

12. When the two singers there cry out, they are the
Flute and reed-pipe, or even lute and drum

13. Blessed is God—how sweet is spring! But do not
Be fooled, for its harvest fails in summer

14. The plateaus smell sweet in it for one staying there
As homes smell sweet for him in others

15. In every land we descended intoxicated
On every back we mounted alert

16. Whoever smells the scent of spring’s greetings says
“Not musk is musk, nor camphor camphor"