1. A convoy passed in the night and called me
To the beauty of memories and the sweetness of wishes

2. It passed softly, lulling me to hope
Slumber strayed from my eyelids

3. It lasted but a moment, then the stars poured out
Their light upon the riders

4. Among the meadows’ blooms appearing
Like the threads of a mirage with pillars

5. It tempted me from afar with its magic
Then poured out with the lightning of torments

6. My tryst with it is soon but still
My heart clamored so with sorrows

7. Many a night like this with no effort
And no memories and no interpreter

8. And a union before parting and reproach
Going astray in the vessel of ardent love

9. So recall before that separation a life
Virtuous, and recall the best of times

10. After union came a lengthy estrangement
To which her glances assented

11. Every life thus has its ending
Except that memories revive desires

12. Recall the covenant - it has passed
And call for patience for my passionate eyes

13. Life is but between union and separation
And reproach wherein meanings melt

14. Except that passions are more stirring
Beneath the ceiling of stars at all times

15. How, by God, did it pass then return
To awaken memory in the eyes of time

16. The steeds of ardor hurried it
And surrendered it to the place of passions

17. It sent the sign of parting and intimated
A union my essence yearned for

18. So I let tears flow toward it
But it refused save the woe of estrangement

19. For you from me after this is a yearning
And a longing overflowing with throbbings

20. Is this how you repay my passion and my sleeplessness
With rejection increasing my sorrows

21. If they said I lied about my love
Then ask this night about my eyes

22. I wonder when comes the longed-for meeting
Or is it a safe haven chasing around wishes

23. You were certain of my pain and my love
Why then the refusal without proof

24. Shun me as much as the heart’s guide pleases but
For me there comes a day when my place is empty

25. Long have I kept the covenants but
That estrangement and refusal maddened me

26. O remedy to the soul that defied me
With the sleeplessness of refusal and length of wishes

27. Where is the sweet union, where is the talk
That used to console us for the passions

28. Leave this passion and quell a blaze
From which tears poured like gushing springs

29. And recall a band who at night
Prepared devices for hatred and enmity

30. Do they want to veil a light that refused
Any but its beaming in the firmaments

31. Only the embittered weakling hates
The enlightened seek no discordance