1. I was truly delighted when Mayya's apparition journeyed by night;

    She visited and revived a dead man when she greeted him.

  2. And she made my reproacher repentant, and he said:

    May both hands of the deluded reproacher of love perish!

  3. No eye has seen the like—or else may it be blinded;

    Nor has an ear heard the like—or else may it be deafened.

  4. So tell the one who meets you, heedless of love:

    You meant a boon for me by reproaching me, yet it is my ordeal.

  5. The torment of passion is sweet—and how wondrous passion is!

    And it is nothing but a cherished wish within death.

  6. And how many wade through fire for love of paradise!

    And the cheek of the one I love is my fire and my paradise.

  7. For Layla's Majnun died a single death in love;

    But I have a thousand deaths each day in passion.

Sol 6.1