1. Live, my heart, you have not lived yet
Why are you so sad and anguished today?

2. Live, and let the dreams of youth
Be captured in a cup with wine and nectar

3. Live it, with its charm, magic, and rapture
The rapture of wonder, and seek in it comfort

4. Thank it, my heart, with gratitude and praise
And scent it, gentle breeze, with fragrance and dew

5. An exhibition as lively as life itself
That gathered arts in the halls of display

6. Marvels that attract and repel
Abundant, surging with ebb and flow

7. Intricacies wrought with skilled hands
By determined souls of mighty resolve

8. Let your gaze linger with pride for a moment
And free your thoughts for an hour to reap glory

9. And gazelles who left fire in my heart
That will not cease to grow and blaze in my soul

10. Beauties of perfect grace wandering in awe
Their faces adorned by God with light and beauty

11. Strolling as if in a trance
Their steps inspired and gentle

12. Laughing when they draw near
Weeping when they distance

13. Sending arrows from their eyes
Keener than the sharpest sword

14. Too noble to be hunted like gazelles
With languid glances they fell the mightiest lion

15. And I saw a maid of such charm
I would sacrifice heart, soul and spirit for her

16. She casts her eyes heavenward at times
Then to the earth, gathering roses

17. I said, "What do you see?" She said, "Beauty."
I said, "All beauty manifests in you."

18. What you look for above
Is but electricity, and below, houri and muse

19. All the electricity in the universe
Has now become a necklace above your breasts

20. All the youth and charm contained
In existence now bows to your beauty, enslaved

21. In you, O queen of beauty, meanings
Of all things, separately and together

22. Live, my musings and longings
And recall that wondrous, boundless exhibition

23. And recall in it the pulse of a heart amazed
And recall in it the pulse of a lonely heart

24. God grant me strength to withstand desire
God grant me strength as a steadfast lover