1. Slow down, o nurse of my passion
And be gentle with my ardency and my heart

2. The tones of your voice, o beautiful one, warbled
In my heart like a bird in the branches

3. By God, your figure is delicate and loving
Like a slender branch or the shoot of a wild plum

4. It sways in the bosom of the night, swaying me
And kindles the fire of love and yearning

5. Your dreamy eyes in their charm
Are the magic of life and the breeze of sweet basil

6. The beauty of your face enraptured me
And soared with my soul to the heights, leading me astray

7. I yearn for you, while my heart burns
And my poetic imaginings about you disappear

8. I see you in the dark gloom and at dawn
I come to conjure you in my soul

9. And I see you in the garden’s flower, a rose
Gorgeous in its forms and colors

10. And I see you in my joy, in my sorrow, in
My pain, in my secret and in my avowal

11. You are renewed, so my eyes never tire
As yearnings and sorrows are renewed

12. And you tease the dreamy imagination
Of a passionate youth with your charming figure

13. And your sweet, beautiful voice, a leaf
That melts from my tenderness

14. Bride of my dreams and fanciful thoughts
And my intimate in union and separation

15. Najla, how graceful your phantom is
Swaying like the branches of a willow

16. Can you feel my sick hand? Rather, place
Your beautiful hand on my suffering heart

17. To see the swoon of love in its throbbing
And see it melting away in palpitation

18. And see it when your brilliance met my eyes
Seething, for your brilliance is like a volcano

19. And feel it, see it in my mystic state
Lofty in spheres and universes

20. And I see you a spirit in life freed
From its body and the baseness of mortals

21. And I see you a melody in the sky of my imagination
Or is not the secret of birds in melodies?

22. And I see you in this life a magical poem
Enchanting in its rhythms and meters

23. And I see you through the layers of existence a white page
Despite the succession of eras