1. The features of your face gave character to characters,
And birds fluttered in their cages.

2. The commoners walked your path, and through you found guidance.
The special ones leaned towards you and whispered.

3. O essence of the sea in which I drowned,
Arise, and let the diver attain his wish.

4. You made a people wretched, for whom hypocrisy was their banner.
And sincerity was the banner of those you brought joy to.

5. With everything, to those you dismissed,
Was shackling, and those you drew near, liberation.

6. And for those you loved, your bullets were gold, just as
For those you did not favor, their bullets were lead.

7. When they approached you, the cheap became priceless.
When distant from you, the priceless became cheap.

8. A bird circles the highest unknown, having
No other hunter in the world but you.

9. Imagination foolishly set up its traps for Him,
The Most High, the Most Majestic, who had a means of escape.

10. My eyes wounded Him when His eyes
Wounded my heart – wounds requited equally.

11. True are those whom through you have not been
Among the living, O You through whom no arquebus kills.

12. And through you the lover is one whose devil
Never ceases to turn back on his heels.

13. The birds of wishes returned foolish
When you became their hope, though before they were wary.

14. A body whose tongue is a drum and chant,
Whose imagination is images and whose heart’s a dancer.

15. Happy is it in the presence of the mystery of its absent one.
Characters have been unveiled before its eyes.