Sol 6.1

  1. More anguished than I since you departed; I only

    Soothe myself with fortitude and patience.

  2. Otherwise, my sighs are hotter than burning ghada wood

    For you, and my eyelids pour more freely than rain.

  3. [Oh?] Would that I knew: will your nearness return?

    But how far away! How much wilderness lies between me and you!

  4. Perhaps the one by whose decree separation came

    Will restore to us a life gone by, though we do not know.

  5. Then we shall let our eyes roam over those broad valleys,

    Wandering from a lush meadow to a river.

  6. And climb, with vistas between the two rocks

    Revealing what lies from the pool to the sea.

  7. And inhale the breeze's moist breaths,

    Perfumed among the watercourses and flowers.

  8. I remembered her, with separation between me and her,

    And one who yearns cannot escape the pang of remembrance.

  9. Now, by love of her—rather, of you—it indeed

    Has taken firm hold between my ribs and breast.

  10. She donned her beauty only through your beauty,

    And a beautiful woman needs a waft of perfume.

  11. And go on! Now that I have given my longing its due,

    [Renew?] your gaze upon the full moon and the fresh bough.

  12. So has a blossom of gladness appeared upon the bough?

    And has the full moon's face shone clear from her cloud?

  13. And do lean steeds have room to roam among the lean ones,

    Among raging lions whose lairs are thickets of brown spears?

  14. And whatever vow of fasting I had made

    Upon reunion—ten days added to a month.

Sol 6.1