1. O my rose, where is the fragrance and the dew?
O my heart, where is the passion and the yearning?

2. O my grieving soul, have you not taken
From the mistress of melodies, where is the wailing?

3. O mother of my dreams and mother of my wishes
In their dawn, where did you bury the sons?

4. I glimpsed in my cup when it shone
The specter of hopes, passion and years

5. And my memories, bare
Appear and disappear between a while and a while

6. That beautiful one in the color of dawn
And that ugly one in the color of darkness

7. Jump in my cup, so I do not refrain
From the wine of the cup, nor do they refrain

8. This is the madness of the soul in its drunkenness
And the mind is among the servants of this madness

9. My beautiful neighbor, talkative
Drunk with passion, tender with youth and infatuation

10. I saw from her sorrows what was hidden
And knocked until what suspicions do not see

11. All the noisy anguish, O my neighbor
Is ransom for a silent sorrow in the eyes

12. Bring me from the sorrows what you wish
No one understands sorrows but the sorrowful

13. O my beautiful neighbor, do you know
O my neighbor, if only you did not know