Let us go and take a house beside the sea

For its gifts are jewels, and its nature is generosity

Know that (the sea's) company makes one the color of the soul

From the company of the heavens, the star came forth with a beautiful face

It is not the body that is beautiful-faced and good-natured by the company of the soul

What becomes of the wretched body when it is separated from the soul?

When the hand is connected to you, it has much skill

When it is separated from the body, it falls under the feet

Where is that skill of yours? Is it not the same hand?

Is it not that this is a time of separation, and that was a time of union?

Therefore, for God's sake, be careful, endure the beloved's coquetry

For the beloved's coquetry is worth a hundred thousand *mans* of sweetmeat

You have experienced separation, do not remind me of it

For this supplicant had no prayer better than this

When our partial soul was cut off from the universal soul

(It) came down with 'Descend!' from such a height

(It) remained like a severed hand, unable to function

Which became prey for a cat, how wretched and afflicted!

From his hand, all the lions had broken paws

That a cat drags him here and there by the hand of fate

There was hope of union as long as his vein throbbed

That (he) found the fortune of union with a thousand separate hands

Do not be surprised at this from the king of happy unions

That the sky has become torn and smoky from his shoe

He is the king of the world and also a master patcher

Cast a glance towards our torn and fragmented parts

Since you have broken our harp, mend it and draw it towards yourself

From pre-eternity, strike the strings, and accept the affliction

We accept the affliction, but where is the first 'Yes'?

For that is like the cry of the soul, and this is the echo from the mountain

Since you have broken our flute, bind up the broken one

See the need of this flute of ours, (consider) those breaths

That our broken flute gives a hundred lives to the broken-hearted

That when will he give me breath so that I may become a subtle expression?