1. O my grieving heart, why so gloomy?
Enough, sorrow is harsh and overwhelming

2. These are my cups, bitter as misery
Filled with nothing but the juice of worries

3. That flute of mine, silent and sullen
Listening to the sound of old love

4. O my crying heart, why the tears?
Nothing in the universe is lasting

5. Scatter the dust of sorrow over the darkness
And listen to the voice of gentle youth

6. Strum on the rhythm of passion's drum
And dance with the charming, smiling light

7. O my burning heart, why so gloomy?
If I don't blame my heart, who do I blame?

8. Why don't you listen to anything but sorrow?
Why don't you look to anything but miseries?

9. Why have you spent your days
Only in the valleys of hell?

10. Don't you see the bulbul in the forest
Singing while the stars stride above the trees?

11. Don't you see the dawns when the forests appear
Like dreams behind the haze?

12. Don't you see hopes in their magic?
Don't you see the night flirting with the stars?

13. O my burning heart, why so gloomy?
You have complained too much, my heart, so what do you want?

14. Do you think the days in their march
Will mourn those demolished by disasters?

15. No, time passes and does not
Turn back to the forgotten past

16. The sea does not mourn those drowned by its waves
The flood does not weep for the debris

17. The mighty raging storm
Has no mercy for the upright slender branch

18. This is the world, so why the grief
O my grieving heart, and why the gloom?