1. Why does my Salma sway with pride
As desire and passion around her glide?

2. She was never thus, the innocent bride
Or seduced by our being captive

3. Or misled by their flattering guise
Deceived by their call, the fair prize

4. Passion snares the singing girls with praise
My heart was at peace enjoying her

5. Alone in love I lived happy
She was my throne, I the wise

6. With verses I sang her admiring tunes
Drawing all eyes to her, a boon

7. She forgot me when to her
Crowded names in her ardent craze

8. All passion-mad for Salma like me
Lost in love's lunacy

9. Vying for me, pressing for me
Teaching her to shy from me

10. Forgetting what was hers and mine
Sees me and turns her eyes away

11. As if naught was between us, feigns
Lost in wonder herself grew tall

12. Beyond her lover, distant in all
Hearts flocked so she grew cold

13. Shining mid veils like sunrise gold
Recalling not her ways of old

14. A glance, a smile, greetings said
Words exchanged, a tryst made

15. Salma she, as I knew before
And I the love-mad evermore

16. Still holding my reins as of yore
Salma herself, none but Salma

17. Salma, I say no more
Day when we roamed as we wished

18. Exchanging the love that nourished
That time between Salma and I

19. When we seemed as one to the eye
I'll ne'er forget, ever nigh

20. Would that today would replay
That day we were alone, I say

21. With modesty our ward and guard
I tired asking passions regarded

22. Revealed my love so love knotted
Asked, does your youth still bloom?

23. I said, my heart knows, called me, come
Probed it and found no room

24. Showed then a kindness sublime
Drawing me from the path of crime

25. You people, you poets in rhyme
How you entrance minds with your song

26. Lure beauty with magic along
Map roads to passion headlong

27. Seduce with your verses the singing girls
Leave many a maiden in love's swirls

28. So fear God in misleading chaste pearls
For chaste hearts are like the wind's curls