1. If they prevent you from walking the path of sleep
Our connection does not cease transferring between us

2. I see her acting coyly
With intelligence lighting up but not coming down

3. Beauty feels stingy towards its lovers
And the people of beauty are more stingy towards it

4. It's all the same with birds if a sparrow
Escapes you while the nightingale remains

5. So O you whom I made a ring for
When will you wear the ring on your finger?

6. You tread upon my soul on the ground
While your specter in my eyes capers

7. From you to me and me to you
Each of us carries for the other

8. And the passionate one strives with his eye
When the legs in love become still

9. Ask the dawn how it shed the vines
While my eye was about to shut

10. The dawn threw its light and its eye burst
Bleeding, so the dew came to wash

11. And it lit from its sun a flame
So upon its heat the slain dried

12. That's how I see people in their betrayal
The ends and starts are equal

13. My friend, tell me when we will meet
For some of us ask about the others

14. I see you aid me in rhetoric
As the starling and probe have united

15. And were it not for the heart and its traits
The tongue would tilt so it wouldn't straighten

16. Lo, I warn the envious band
Swords from us that will sever

17. And tell the birds do not flutter
Nor frolic, for the woodcock has fallen

18. I wonder at them and it's wondrous when
I wonder about those who lack reason

19. The eyelid is not equal if it has dust
Even if it resembles kohl and kohl

20. They avoid me, so what did they see?
Did the sifting light of daybreak hold back?

21. And the dust rose, so O horizon, did
Its burnished mirror clear for you?

22. And the mouse came, so why didn't
The mountains meet its lowliness?

23. How can the crescent frighten the darkness
And Antarah's sword the butcher?

24. They saw in my wisdom a seconder
As the one-eyed looks at the sole