1. How you seduced me and were harshly aloof,
My darling who gave so little yet took so much.

2. My heart wished ignorance of love, if it were to
See how it brings sickness and torment as such.

3. My ribs complained of the heart's fiery ache.
Did we ever know love to be peaceful or cold?

4. Dawn rose smiling, so gaze
At the stars of dusk whimpering as they fold.

5. Like me bewildered, not knowing what's near,
Hiding with darkness, resting assured.

6. I charged it with a message of yearning
And reproach, which I think it won't convey.

7. I said to the birds, as the dawn turned them singing:
"O birds, what a morning in chorus you relay!"

8. Then sang a song about a lover
Who was no tyrant, never went back on his word.

9. It ignited memories in me, then departed,
Not shot by a hunter - you sang quite absurd!

10. My darling's cheeks gathered violets, jasmine, and roses,
A smile that never leaves his lips

11. Unless when I ask him to fulfill a promise.
I knew no loyalty, no vow made anger eclipse

12. That gentle, affable smile.