1. Do I think, though I have not tried the likes of you,
That the hearts of the women of the world are rocks?

2. Leave me be, though I gained no falsehood from you -
Perhaps a specter in a dream that visits.

3. I wept to the flock of cats when they passed by me,
And I said: One like me deserves weeping!

4. O flock of cats, is there one among you extending his wing?
Perhaps to the one I love I may fly!

5. And if not, then who is this conveying a greeting,
That I may thank him - for the lover is grateful.

6. And which she-cat did not help a lovestruck brother -
So she lived in distress and the wing is broken.