1. Look at a man's companions to know him
Though you have no news of him before.

2. I'm not the first one who missed
Some of what he sought from his loved one.

3. Many a suitor has tried
Yet she he sought was wed to another,

4. And she was married after him to someone else
Though she was forbidden to him before.

5. We were close friends, sincere,
Fearing no slanderers and their schemes.

6. But when the house parted us,
It was exposed, and blame fell on people.

7. The rift between us now
Is like a crack in glass, unable to mend.

8. Like a pearl, it has no way
Back to the oyster once taken out.