1. Why is your heart so enamored with the beauty
Of a gazelle toward the pastures of deer?

2. If the breeze blows fragrant in the folds of air,
It spreads like the threads of outstretched rope.

3. Do you justify the agony of unrequited love
And its troubles, like the bending shadow?

4. For passion is sweetest when you taste it
Beyond any delightful and gentle wealth.

5. If not for passion the boughs of gardens
Would not sway like conversations and staffs.

6. Whoever dies from arrowheads in battle
And not from a glance unjustly is no martyr.

7. And most delicious for the lover to find
Is with tears in separation and yearning.

8. And if you fell in love and no compassion
Came to you, then every envious heart would rejoice.

9. So leave passion to its people, for its lowly
Are like its noble, and its wretched like the happy.