1. The festival nights are nothing
But the best this time could offer

2. During them, I had a sweet dream
Where hours felt like moments

3. In that singing, my heart took flight
A ray for lyrics and tunes

4. So how did you slip away, oh blissful days
And where did you go, oh wishes

5. Leaving me a sad young man
Suffering in youth what I suffer

6. That’s how I won’t return, nor will you
To my time’s bliss or places

7. The days that brought me youth are gone
With my hopes and loves' intimacy

8. And vitality with flowers and scents
Farewell, and I can’t reclaim them

9. The city racecourses were flooded by them
With horses of leisure loose-reined

10. Some of us challenging others there
As if in a race or a bet

11. The tunes had a subtle recital
Melting the dark-eyed houris’ hearts

12. So—my rapture at the girls' voices
The houris of heaven displaying their beauty

13. They dyed their cheeks, so I swoon
Seeing daffodil flowers of saffron

14. They revealed the gardens wearing clothes
Speckled like the morals of the libertines

15. So each market became a flower market
With blossoms no other soul has touched

16. When I breached a wave of crowds
I saw my sweetheart among the beauties

17. I bid her peace and she blushed
A doe in the shade of chrysanthemum

18. She avoided my spray of perfume
Guarding herself with her fingers

19. After she ran away, she came back
To face me, smiling her pretty smile

20. I said: Not for spraying, but nobility’s wing
I see safety in seeking safety

21. The festival has ended—will I see her again
And meet her and pluck the fruit of love

22. From her tresses I’d inhale a fragrance
And the flower’s water her hands rain?

23. My greetings are doves roving
The beauty of lyrics and tunes

24. You left hastily—come back swiftly
Oh festival nights!