I am willing to interpret this

Hatem:

I am willing to interpret this!

Have I not often recounted the story

of how the Doge of Venice

married the sea?

It was this way that your fingers

let the ring fall into the Euphrates.

Ah, to a thousand flowery songs

you inspire me, sweet dream!

I, who have been everywhere from the Indies

to Damascus,

and come with new caravans

all the way to the Red Sea:

You have married me to your river,

to the terrace of this grove;

here I shall, until the last kiss,

dedicate my soul.