1. What is beauty to me
O symbol of this beauty

2. O desire of my soul, spirit, and heart come to me
To you I hum, hum my fascination, O all I have

3. To you I raise my hands in reverence and supplication
Do you not see my pallor

4. And my yellowness and my agitation
Do you not see my restlessness

5. And my confusion and my misguidance
Do you not see my yearning

6. And my humiliation and my questioning
I am a captive of my passion

7. My soul and slave of beauty
Tears from the humiliation of myself

8. And sickness from the wretchedness of my state
What are you? Are you a fantasy?

9. Or are you a specter of fantasy?
Or a wave of ether

10. Or a crescent's halo
Or a flash of rays

11. That illuminate these nights
And an image of majesty

12. Or a doll of perfection
And a paper of sorcery

13. Or a breath of coquetry
And a waft of perfume

14. Or a glimmer of ornaments
And a breeze of zephyr

15. Or are you the north wind
And a gust of longing

16. Or a thrill of exaltation
Or are you a hidden secret

17. That undulates between the shadows
Or are you a dangerous whimsy

18. That does not occur to the mind
And where are you? In the night

19. Or do you see in the mountains
And in the folds of the air

20. Or in the shadows of the valleys
And in the heights of space

21. Or in the space of the heights
And in the depths of my soul

22. Or in the sky of my imagination
My soul, do you not remember

23. The days follow the nights
Hours we used to confide

24. O lights folded in shadows
Hours I fretted and obsessed over you

25. O fleeting years
I forgot my soul my existence

26. And that I am in the heights
I rejoiced then lips

27. That have no equal
And a cheek of rays

28. And eyelids of shadow
And I went to fold a body

29. Of the immense bodies
An immense of beauty

30. And a planet of majesty
And I did not feel myself

31. Except a martyr of my degradation
And I went down to earth

32. Crowned with my misguidance
And I walked toward eternity

33. And I walked toward decline
And I came to a world more content

34. With a body like emptiness
Ashamed I came to be pleased

35. As I strove my endeavor
My soul I implore you my soul

36. With affliction and agitation
When will I see you and will

37. Those nights return
When will I leave my earthly place

38. To you, sublime mighty one
I intend my dissolution

39. With you and my separation from it
O soul that melted in longing

40. For you symbol of beauty
O soul my patience is long

41. When will be my decline