1. Lightning crowns the heights of the hills
Else yonder are the lights of dwellings

2. As though its flashes crazed eyes
That try to find the sun of morning

3. Else those are lamps before extinguishing
That blaze at nightfall's fracture

4. Else those are swords aslant
In the hands of warriors stripped by time

5. And the rocks you see are naught
But roaming gazelles leading the does

6. About to take wing in yearning
When the hills' bright thirsty ones draw nigh

7. As though the earth would kiss their feet
And the gazelles stretched out their necks

8. When it passed a verdant valley
Dragging its train o'er the sand

9. Raiment of brocade adorning its flanks
Its sides forget what gloom may be

10. Its fresh sweet rains nurtured its youth
Once a garden of delights was it

11. When life was soft as the bending bough
Bowing with the weight of the wished fruit

12. How oft yearning makes you changeful
How oft youth's morn makes you yearn

13. Patience, I've seen hearts broken
By this and that and one another

14. You've befriended sorrow since those days
As though making sorrow pleasant to you