1. O you whom I was charged with loving though you were
veiled from the observer's eye, wearing the garb of caution,

2. And I granted you the essence of affection, laying down
my soul for you though you were forbidden,

3. And I showed you the face of good advice, wishing
you to rise above baseness,

4. And I preserved you with my effort but your opinion, my friend, refused to be lost,
I was let down in my good expectations of you, so farewell

5. at the gravesite, may you not return to bid goodbye,
You exposed yourself to the arrows but paid no heed to

6. the words of one who had become your defamer,
Or had you not given me a pact to always remain

7. veiled from the world?
And I admonished your heart but it would not heed,

8. And I appealed to your hearing but you did not listen,
So I despaired of reforming you when I found no hope

9. in my advice for your betterment,