1. To you the stars and maidens yearn
They and she in their longing are partners

2. Yearning at your feet, hoping for their arrival
To a land where the loved one lived in bliss

3. Their breaths no sooner sigh than rise
And their breaths above exhale in joy

4. They intended, they healed, when travel quickened their malady
While others like me remain disheartened and slow

5. So I returned while my loved one journeyed on
And I who stayed and the travelers are not equal

6. For him and to him is my heart's love and tears
A love proven and tears streaming have healed me

7. In Tayba could I be pleased though its sky shows clear
If it remains a land while my beloved is the sky

8. Its breezes are fragrant and a glance from there as if
Wit, perfume's scent and the light, radiance

9. O guide of song lead on though from you is torment
Sing to me after distance from you wears me down

10. In Salu', question about my agony from love
And question in Quba when it comes into view

11. In healing me with my heart do not despair
Can I find healing there and recovery?

12. Upon parchment I inscribe my burning longing
Its cure, if union were permitted, is our meeting

13. Places of shelter and a land where contentment lies
And places where the longing find hope