1. Why do the radiant stars whisper to me
While my heart towards them is a soaring bird

2. As if the messenger of love between me and them
Is a shining light upon my heart and eyes

3. So I look to them, lost in contemplation
And inspiration descends from them into my thoughts

4. Strange is the concealment of their secrets
With their lights where the astrologer wanders confused

5. From tending them is companionship, knowledge and wisdom
And they have awakened only the gentle sights

6. So I stay awake many a long night for them
And my bedroll is sweetly scented in the meadow

7. Under me is the soft, dewy grass and pillow
Above me the lofty canopy’s curtains

8. And nothing pains me but remembering a night
When my heart was in the bloom of youth

9. Next to me a little girl, young and pure
Like the dawn’s dew, innocent and bright

10. She said, our heads like two heads of wheat
That touched together in the meadow, swaying

11. “Do you stay awake to witness the flowers and dusk
Illuminating like flowers, and the night journeys on?”

12. I said “Yes”, and the wind scattered her hair on me
That hair was fragrant with perfume

13. Two angels stayed awake, and thus
The flowers bloomed open and the stars kept journeying

14. Oh, are there after her heart, hearts for passion
And after her eyes, eyes that gaze?

15. Show them two stars in the bosom’s orbit
So the departing stars won’t mock them