1. Who will give me your face and youth and wealth
And safety from my fate and from its sons

2. Alas for the lover and his heart and his beloved
And his watcher and time against his enemies

3. And he dies of the sickness that is in his heart
And fears the physician's knowledge of his illness

4. And his disdain, and his disdain's grief suffices him
And death from it and from the sophistry of his opinions

5. And talking from beneath the prose of his tears
To one who talks from beneath the fire of his tribulation

6. The stars of grey hair appear over its morning
And a star does not appear without its darkness

7. The shining sun of the face did not guide love
In my thoughts but by the lantern of its light