1. I have embarked on love boundless, without end
See me outstripping lovers in endurance

2. My heart cannot endure long journeys of passion
Worry is my provision, my tears my supplies

3. Gentle, O king, your torment may cease for me
Have no fear I'll remain steadfast without respite

4. An army of patience in me, none can defeat
Yearning shifts its encampments upon my liver

5. I have reached the furthest extent with no breach
Slanderers gnaw but cannot diminish or add

6. Lovers whose lids brimmed with showers of tears
Lovers whose mouths brimmed with icy shards

7. He whose mouth shows fangs and claws hook-nailed
Is the deer brought down by the jaws of the lion

8. My soul, complain not of their disdain to God
Nor to them - so to whom make your plaint?