Darkness by Ahmet Hasim

On this dark night of love
Wildly the nightingale sings,
Has Leyla left Mejnun?
I thought the Wild voice sang of parting pain.

On this dark night of love
I felt my grief, remembered you,
Burned like the love-lorn nightingale’s sad refrain.

translated by Bernard Lewis

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