where joy danced and leaped

Has anyone drunken with love like us,

seen love like we have seen it ?

We built a thousand castles on our way,

Walked together on a moon-drenched road,

Where joy danced and leapt before us,

we gazed at the stars that fell, and we possessed them.

And we laughed like two children together,

ran and raced with our own shadows.

After this nectar's sweetness we awoke -

how I wished it had never been so !

Night's dreams had vanished, the night was ended

the night that used to be our friend.

The light of morning was an ominous herald ;

Ibrahim Nagui (1898-1953)