1. Slender in stature, fresh and green
With a single glance, you made me blind

2. You have darkened my fate, O fairest of creation
With the darkness of moles, eyelashes and dimples

3. An old love from one long estranged
In passion though still impassioned

4. How often did he meet you with distance and promises and aloofness
How often does he complain while you don't care to unwrap his anguish

5. We have seen those who attained their love and those who were spurned
But I exceeded them all in suffering

6. Will you grant or allow
Just once, a union?

7. For I have lost all patience and composure
Your estrangement has made me hate my very being

8. My excuse is a moon that shows you
Its radiant cheek

9. When it mingles with the wine cups
As it meets their brims

10. I see you as Egyptian gold
Above pure silver