1. The youth is eventually healed, while time pushes him
And the darknesses of death do not bring him back

2. He strives toward the unknown shore, blindly, not
Casting anchors on a wave that startles him

3. O lake, after my beloved is there
Any solace, while that love remains, making him sob

4. In you lies a melting heart's darling that fell
Nay, the hearts of all the young fell in you

5. I love your wave, loving she who once stood
Upon it, and came to bid him farewell

6. The year barely passed after our separation
Before I returned, yearning driving me back

7. I came and sat alone wherever she sat
Would that a rock on which my tears adorned

8. Like the waves did break against the boulders
As if shredded by your agony, its ribs

9. So desire's foam scattered in the night
Her slippers' traces sufficed to content him

10. Do you remember an evening we went out
Swiftly, the sweetest life the swiftest

11. When our boat sailed with no breath
Beneath the sky and above the water we heard

12. The oars' rhythmic falls delighted us
The waves' melody followed their tune

13. A sad, heartfelt melody, not of mortals
Captivated the shores that now echo it

14. The boulder, the wave and the branches are poets
The wind makes it recede and rise

15. My heart took flight, and my enchantment
Made me like a dreamer, his dreams beguiling him

16. By God, I can't forget what she said, moaning,
Her gorgeous eyes overflowing with tears

17. O fate, slow down; O hours of our joy
Stand still a little, so we can seize it

18. Let us quench our thirst for youth, and so spend it
As we came to bid farewell

19. So much illusion in the deceitful world, so many
Summoned death who then forced it upon them

20. Take the lives of the miserable and their misery
And forget the happy one, for love makes greedy

21. I asked fate to stand still, in our happiness
But it fled as if my voice frightened it

22. I said, "O night, be gentle with the lover!"
But dawn parted what we sought to unite

23. Let's delight then, let's delight and enjoy hastily
When we get a glimpse, not letting it go by

24. And let's seize the fleeting chance of joy
The heart is gladdened by memories and pained anew

25. And time is like a man, not reaching his shores
Beauty in sadness is a garden withered pastures

26. O fate, be gentle with lovers, for their
Life has thorns you still refuse

27. Even for the shortest joys, you envy us
Though we were distraught by the worries we endure

28. For passion, my tears flowed and blood poured out
What can I do after the joy of union?

29. The shade in my garden diminished; my goblet now
Shattered, after I had relished sipping from it

30. My bliss passed like my misery, swiftly, melting away
Upon it, my heart, made to pine by its aloofness

31. Can't I preserve for it some vestige
In my deepest self, stamping it on my entrails?

32. What has passed can't be relieved by tears or regrets
My heart won't be healed, and patience is no use

33. O vanishing days, how many memories and pains
You fold and rend what man seeks to patch!

34. Say, what do you do with days you bury
While beauty and love are water that ran dry?

35. Won't you give my heart back some vanished joy
And delight it for an instance with past nights?

36. Would that the bygone returned to me
And the abandoned lodge with its square niches!

37. O lake, o deaf rock, o thick wood
And rugged cave with its slippery slope

38. Your charms have renewed my blindness’ dress
Donning and doffing robes of radiance

39. I implore you, by God, to revive that night’s memory
For each heart worn by affliction crumbles

40. Whether still or stirring, O lake of love
In you, memories linger which I entrust

41. So it comes alive on a green, flowery shore
With soft meadows where flocks grazed

42. In crags inclined over you and in
A pine whose ardour filled me with fervour

43. In the echoing clamour of the banks repeating it
As branch reached out to gather branch in its arms

44. In a gentle breeze which sways gracefully
As if it were the tune of an ode I compose

45. And in the light upon the water, spangling
What rose from the shining galaxy’s rising

46. So if the wind sighed in a lush garden
And the plaintive reed bent with the gust

47. If perfume blew by which the sleepless is revived
Its redolence restoring the distraught lover

48. So people eternally hear a voice shouting
In a night of love, keeping worries away

49. Truly, they loved, but their reunion did not last,
And if love departs, the eye weeps for its place