1. These eyes and this glance,
Let whoever has a heart of trust approach.

2. Had they fallen in love, they would not have blamed,
But they blamed without falling in love.

3. They were unjustly harsh in blaming me,
Had they tasted the cup of passion, they would have been gentle.

4. Love is but a perilous path,
Escape is difficult and the footing slippery.

5. That is why the lion still stalks
The thicket where the bold hyena tears.

6. Clad in rough sackcloth
Head to toe speaking volumes.

7. My wonder at his brow and softness
When dawn is bright and the darkness yet to disperse.

8. Oh night I regretted its planet
When the horizon revealed it to me.

9. Had I not hurried to sip its chalice
Containing the cold, I would have burned.

10. Until overcoming him with its intoxication
A moon on which fiery meteors flame.

11. I kissed his cheek when it appeared
On its platter, burned from my heart.

12. And I was bold, but then recoiled from his mouth,
Passion gives but separation is denied.

13. I did not know before I embraced him
That all wings can burn.

14. Hopes had withered,
My parched thirst roughening their drink.

15. Until Abu Hassan allowed them
To sleep, leaves covering their branches.

16. The world seems paltry and cheap whatever
Hand and paper are given.

17. In the image of all perfection gathered for her
And most excellent nature and manners.

18. And she surpasses in generosity, magnifying him
Until he is assumed to be the tear itself.