1. She said, "You were stingy with tears, though our joy
and your tears would have been a spring when we wished."

2. I said, "My eyes did not know separation from you, so how
could they rain upon it? For I was confounded."

3. What harm if one famed for beauty is described as beautiful,
even if he were not adorned with beauty and kindness?

4. And provision from you - if you do not give lavishly,
still I would be content if you did not stint the ration.

5. For you have spent the night away, so there is no gift or tryst,
no rope to join with you that was not cut.