1. What ails this star in the dark of night
It has lost its way from staying up late

2. My friend, it comforts me in solitude
When the friend of nightfall abandons me

3. O my people, I am but a man
Whose days are worn down with patience

4. The events have kept me up awake
While even the trees' caller slept

5. The darkness walks slowly
With the gait of glory and vigilance

6. In it the specter of despair embraced me
Like a lover returned from journey

7. And it stirred in me sorrows
Latent woes and distress

8. As if the night vowed never
To end or my life to cease

9. O dark-skinned one, why do you not dread
The Creator of mankind in us

10. I have a lover who migrated and has
An image of the finest forms

11. I wasted away in love of him
Like the shadow waning in the moon