1. O home of Salma, I bid you peace
And the slopes of that towering height

2. When the rain is scarce do you weep
For me with prolonged tears

3. I swear by the bitter life in
You that it is the truest oath

4. And by the trailing of youth’s robes
In the gloom of the darkest night

5. And by what you left and took
Of woe and of sickness

6. The oath of one with a throbbing heart
Sleepless eyes and trembling lip

7. I was never inclined to
Frivolity except accused

8. No, it was not what
The envious claimed, as alleged

9. My friend, stop and ask
Between these tents

10. A heart that constant sorrows
Have overflowed with blood

11. If they say that desperate lover
Say: yes, it is true

12. I left him and his being
In his sickness was like naught