1. The epitome of beauty, you make us envious
What is it to you if we glance?

2. It is but a look that forgets dignity
And gladdens the soul and its meaning

3. My world you are, and my joy
And the heart's wish when it desires

4. You are the sky that appeared to us
And remained aloof in the distance from us

5. Why not take pity on a lover
Whose passion and yearning tempest-tossed him

6. And memory's winds blew him
So he wandered, singing, a melody, a melody

7. Your charms made him drunk
They suffice what his singing ecstasied

8. O flame, you set our thoughts roaming
Revolving around you as we roamed

9. We forgot in you a prayer
And touched an effulgence and passed away

10. And looked into your eyes
Horizons and mysteries and meaning

11. And heard a sorcery
Melting its echo in the ears a melody

12. I attained happiness in
Passion and sipped it slowly, slowly

13. Your beauty was confined in
Cheeks and I protected it from what it hid

14. And you veiled it, so you veiled
A speaking sorcery and a universe was veiled

15. And refused that the beautiful and free
Should be imprisoned