1. My heart obeyed you striving, yet I disobeyed it
And I scorched it with the fire of disloyalty, but it was not burnt

2. Oh, if only one day it would obey me
For it has disappointed me, as if it had never been mine

3. It has struggled in destroying my soul with passion
And my body melted, yet it is weaker than a bough

4. The shedding of tears is no mere coolness
Of ecstasy, neither does it avail against yearning

5. May God watch over those who did not keep my covenant when they were unfaithful
And turned away until their image turned away from me

6. How can an apparition visit confused, when its eyelid
In life has never fallen upon an eyelid

7. Since you cannot do good, so who can do good?
Is benevolence found except with beauty?

8. And if you seek to destroy me, in life there is consolation
Which leads the firm to sorrow with anxiety and grief

9. Whoever does not die satisfied in obedience to love
His resting place has never poured with syrup of sweetness

10. My excuse is a life that is unjust with passion
And corrupts what it provides with rejection and prevention

11. I will spend my time trusting and satisfied
And restrain my soul from encountering misfortune

12. And I will turn away from the love of veils and temptation
With my soul, from the honor of dignity, to a fortress

13. Can the free man consent to disgrace for himself
Even if he were in the Garden of Eternity or Eden?

14. No, by the night and daybreak, the full moon and Sirius
And what I have endured, that is not my way

15. Selling one's soul unjustly and leaving one's home
Brings no loss or regret to the free

16. My noble soul, and God is its guarantor
For its livelihood, if one day it becomes needy