1. O noble Layla, my heart has yearned

    for you, for you, O noble Layla.

  2. I was enamored of you in youth and in my gray-haired years;

    if only you were as enamored of me as I am of you.

  3. I kept vigil for you through the pleasant nights,

    my long-lashed eyes watching the star.

  4. And of you I composed virgin songs,

    and of you I sang them beneath the roofed shelter.

  5. And I lamented much in longing for you,

    and because of me the lovelorn man multiplies his laments.

  6. And through my passion, hearts have grown enamored

    of you, though before me they were not enamored.

  7. I boarded ships upon the sea to reach you,

    and crossed deadly, trackless, far-flung wastes.

  8. And how many a desolate land I crossed—

    its fearsome seas leading the camel-chant astray [uncertain meaning].

  9. I joined one trackless wilderness to another,

    toward it, a wilderness like the sky [verb unclear].

  10. How then, O Layla, can I bear a farewell,

    when love's summons has made me bear its many forms?

Sol 6.1