1. When the sun is absent on a cloudy day
The sun of wine takes its place

2. As though the overcast sky
Were a mirror breathed upon by a melancholy man

3. My days are a beloved, and my cup a beloved
Circling between beloved hands

4. My two boon companions in this world
Are my fate and my luck

5. The beloved is enough for the spy
For the beloved spies on me

6. Leave me with the slender branch of the palm tree
That will soon bear fruit from this branch

7. That's why some lads from the abode of bliss
Were exceptionally strange

8. By it, my soul dies within my body
And my heart bears the scars of the eyes within it