1. In a night of union like the night of separation, no light shone
Nor clarity, but filled with gloominess

2. From the watcher, from the changing fortunes, from the eyelids
From the stars, and I cannot forget the palace

3. Time advanced in it, time without dinner
Without supper and without dawn’s first light

4. Like the fluttering flags, my shackles were not cooled by it
And the flashing lightning did not delight my sight

5. And you, O end of the night of union, procure for me
Supper while the night of separation is confined

6. If only the clouds over the horizons were locked
So they would not open for the last hours of night and dawn

7. And if only I were a stranger to separation when it occurred
And if only I were a stranger to the night, unaware

8. The falcon of darkness hunted at the morning’s first glow
Pouncing behind the scattered stars’ radiant flowers