1. I respond to your call, o provoker of passion
Welcome, o spirits of evil

2. You have honored me when
You joined my cheek with mud

3. Did you remind me of loved ones or
Give me a cup of wine?

4. Greetings O valley of Damascus
Damascus bids me farewell

5. And your weeping from my eyelids like
Clouds passing with sorrow

6. Your life breathed the breeze
About the confused lover

7. And it stirred the bodies of the branches
Into an embrace and commitment

8. Until the turtledove awoke to yearning
The passions of the doves

9. And was exposed frailly to the wafting
Musk seals

10. With sparks, not of metal armor
But of the bending branches

11. Of every tender-moving gazelle
Swaying, slender in stature

12. Darkness disappears when a slight
Smile blossoms in the gloom

13. Like moles between hearts
When it grins and the darkness

14. The beautiful one's charming glance
Plays with the generous souls

15. Deceiving the dancing firefly
Difficult to obtain, refusing intimacy

16. It colored life and its gardens
Making you think it will last forever

17. Our nights of union were generous
As white nights in harmony

18. With no watcher but chastity
And no limbs but words

19. It sniffed from the scent of life
As it sniffed from sleep

20. Life with separation is more bitter
Than the taste of doves

21. Remembering distant love
Is harder than the blow of swords

22. If you ever pained me
May the protector destroy me

23. The beloved wandered confused in my veins
And disease took over my body

24. A body of sorrow materialized
And a heart of pain

25. The hands of sorrow seduced it
Like the burning of blame

26. And the sigh of hardship began
Squeezing my bones

27. And strange events in
The cunning of the resentful stranger

28. If the steps are not satisfied
Except by my isolation and collapse

29. Then I have resorted to deterrence
Dispeller of the great hardship

30. And I have sought from the steps
The mercy of the peaceful King