1. The long night's darkness shortened its life
And the ailing one must certainly pass away

2. The horizon was too narrow for him
So he hurried the stars desiring departure

3. He left and cares in hearts lightened
As he moved on from the difficult station

4. I almost hated the color of darkness
Were it not for the intercession of a charming glance

5. The sun folded away and hid her sister
Like a doe's aversion to an elephant's face

6. When she needed him before
The breezes of the late evening pulled her

7. I see the moon hiding so I lured her
And every beauty opposes beauty

8. Did fortune send me this gloom
So the message became the face of the messenger

9. Or did the night stand for a funeral
So from it came mourning and wailing

10. I didn't forget the moment I saw it
With the body of daylight as frail as mine

11. The sky came out to console it
When dusk shrouded its daughter

12. On a ship resembling the zodiac
Passing by like galloping lightning

13. When gazes met it
You'd hear their swords clash

14. And if souls' suspicions neared it
You'd see souls pouring towards it

15. The meadows' fragrances brought out
The obligatory charity of aromas for the wayfarer son

16. The hearts toyed with the singing girls
One sways and another leans

17. As if the eyebrows were a bow so they did not
Stir except to reveal a slain one

18. As if the hearts led hearts astray
So the gazes became the guide

19. Doves in a safe sanctuary
Built by the Friend on these ribs

20. And nothing startled them but the night's color
Tarnishing the sky's polished tablet

21. So how ugly is the night as a newcomer
With the face of lies and sight of betrayal

22. Hateful to us in its coming
And worse than vileness is humiliating the vile

23. How much it consoled me with hopes
Which showed me my time was ungenerous

24. Of people's hopes are some unreachable
Just as among people are those who do not reach