1. Oh my two friends whom I saw
Endowed with charm beyond any friend

2. Stop, let not my share and your share be weeping
Over a ruin with two pillars left standing

3. For I, though thankless towards God, miserably
Followed my own inclinations

4. Entrusted to miserliness, its rope not tied
With lasting knots or generous favor

5. And every friend who does not care if he leads me
To betrayal or sells me for a friend

6. Your apparition comes closer to me than you when it travels
To us without description or guide

7. And it turns away as is its habit except
It is unrelenting in threats and promises