1. When the radiant full moon rises in the horizon
I am drawn to poetry and melancholy stirs

2. Though I had abandoned the gentle art out of boredom
Knowing trends pass and fashions never endure

3. Yet an old longing shakes me to my core
And I cast rhymes into seas that surge

4. For poetry in my heart is but a torrent rushing
Or fire blazing as passions are stirred

5. Say to the one who meets beauty calmly
May God grant you healing, untouched heights

6. On the moonlit night, long was your slumber
And silence descended where chatter once stirred

7. I remained awake as passions soothed me
And the branches' scent gently stirred

8. I see the moon rising over the meadow for me
How often has it risen through haze and snows

9. As she emerged, virtuous, from her castle
Onto a garden where spring forever weaves

10. I left my heart soaring, free of my youth
With no escape from the cage of my ribs

11. I loved she whom I loved, and for her
The meadows stretched wide under the sun

12. About to fall to earth, crying out
To highest heaven, love I most need