1. By your life! The one I love did no wrong;
Rather, we have been afflicted by preoccupying hearts with emptiness.

2. He takes from me what he wants of passion,
And I am nothing against his passion's violence.

3. He eludes me from union with him for a lifetime;
Where is the use in subtle, elusive guile?

4. Passion tosses my side every night
On embers or burning coals of vipers.