1. I remembered you when the horizon was darkened,
And lightning flashed like swords unsheathed.

2. While you stay where no lightning flashes
In a beholder's eye, nor does the breeze's spirit stir.

3. An exile from homelands, you have neither
A gift to them, nor after leaving, a return.

4. Except for you, a quarter has passed and after it
Are ruins, the like of which are no ruins.

5. And memory returned to my heart, when we were neighbors
For a time, and when fellowship embraced all.

6. When our meager life lavished its lowliness
Upon us, and when the bird of bliss alighted.

7. Until discord walked between you and I
And severed the peers of purity with felling.

8. And each day I gain a companion I make new
Who takes him from my comfort with drawing away.

9. When I say, the dove steps toward him,
The claws of discord plunge down holding sharp talons.

10. Peace upon those tombs and their nobility
With the most plentiful and sweetest spring can bestow.

11. So do not envy us staying while you are
On a journey. Meetings will come with speed.