1. As long as Layla’s nights endure
My heart with passion overflows

2. And my eyes gaze at starry skies
From which my wandering tears flow

3. Shall I conceal the love that stirs
When her alluring smile begins?

4. When love poems I recite to her
She listens as if in a garden

5. What is the spring from which I draw
Passion, poetry, thoughts that stir?

6. She bars my way, I cannot turn
Though her indifferent glances spur

7. If she forgets a soul who loved
A slave whose heart love made concur

8. My fate is estrangement in her love
More than what poets undergo