Aheste çek kürekleri mehtab uyanmasın [English translation]

Row gently, let not the moonlight wake:

Let not the water, lost in a world of vision, wake.

The universe is in the arms of a perennial spring asleep,

Let this sleep last to Doomsday and never wake.

In this heavenly music let all the instruments be hushed

And never again the plectrum in this night of revels wake.

O rose bid silence to the nightingale

Lest friends in the rose-garden lulled in pleasure wake.

Just to terminate this life it is not worth, Kemal, to wake:

Let the weary heart from this slumber never wake.