1. Joy has appeared, so my eyes are tearful
With love for her, though my body's healthful.

2. When I remember her, sickness haunts my heart,
And my frame grows limp, though vigorous at the start.

3. If I forget her or claim she's fled far away,
Her allure comes back, and I'm bound as her prey.

4. She's kept safe in chambers, out of people's sight,
Where the spy can't hope to peer, or slip inside at night.

5. When I wake from sleep, the heart she rules with delight
Stirs as the eyelids lift at first morning's light.

6. Her sweet lips quench the thirst which her necklace instills
As it adorns the soft skin where her braid spills.

7. Like a carving it shines on her breast snowy white
As figures shine in churches, bestrewn with sunlight.

8. It sprouted like a sapling nourished by a brook
Sheltered from the noon blaze under a shady nook.

9. Smooth and bright are her cheeks, slit with laughing flashes
As if her eyes were kohled by unerring pens' slashes.

10. One day the hot season set it ablaze in its niche
Though sheltered in the lotus tree's leafy reach.

11. Ask her quietly in the night's secrecy
When the messengers are still and all is husky.

12. With knees spread wide and prominent hips jumping free
While her thighs and waist bend lithely as a willow tree.

13. As if the sparks in her arms were set there for me
By the flint that loves to spark the blaze angrily.

14. She is like a mare of purest stock, proudly prancing,
While mares and fillies nobly circle her dancing.

15. When thirst came to mind and the watering pools looked far,
And finding the water source seemed a hopeless star,

16. He gathered resolve and led the mares onward,
Though seawater can't slake a thirst left smoldering.

17. Then down the slopes they plunged helter skelter
His hooves striking the ground - no strength left to welter.

18. A two year old whose first youth was flying fast
His forelock dangling loose from his galloping past.

19. He raced like a prize stud's hasty gait I know
When the mares he's served discipline him with their blow.

20. He brought them to a blue-hued meadow drinking pool
Where the female deer and fawns could refresh when they're full.

21. Drinking the fresh, cool water, their eyes still dart
Fearing the hunter who'll aim for their soft part.

22. They drank but little, then shied in sudden alarm
At a hunter wearing congealed blood upon his arm.

23. They bolted like birds flushed by a noisy yell
As if ropes entwined them under the hunter's spell.

24. Facing the sun's blaze he rushed to scatter them,
Throwing the does into panicked mayhem.

25. If one revealed her rear, his attention stirred
A shaggy beast, raking her flesh, fangs bared.

26. He hounded them like storm winds blowing free
Gusts alternating, some strong and some fleeting.

27. Oh you who'd ride out! Rush, do not delay!
Unless you hurry, dead you'll be this day.

28. Put no trust in his oath or vow to spare you
When the brigand reaches you, nothing can spare you.

29. How often we charged them with drawn swords flashing white
Our steeds frothing, riders pressing the fight.

30. When their women wail, they only redouble their cries
Their robes hitched up high, nothing left to disguise.