1. You failed me in your service, a confessed failure,
Not what brothers and servants would do.

2. Until the feathers of the partridge paled from fear,
If you forgave, blood would flow in its cheeks.

3. Even if days shunned my desire,
My feet would cease their quest.

4. After my excuse, I fretted with sorrow,
My eyelids and my home tearful with regret after you.

5. I obeyed the nights’ rule in leaving one
Whose company was all, now is naught.

6. Why did you not refuse the caller to part?
What is with me? I prayed against his rage.

7. If nights reprove my stumbling, and I succeed
In nearing you, our reunion will be the causeway.