1. The longing has split his lovelorn heart
With anguish from Ramah, as she wanted to part

2. She gave him false hopes when giving them
Those were the pacts, which were then broken

3. He had set the trysting-place as the appointment
He was true, though she did not keep the engagement

4. O name! A delirious passion has addled my mind
With the secret of your love, hanging, suspended

5. Did you rob him of his senses, or have you not seen
A heart led astray by love, and then become sane?

6. He resolved to have self-control from a lover when
She turned from him; he now desires a union

7. You came to him the day you departed
Sweet tasting, cooling, shining bright

8. In the full moon at its perfection
For the like of her the heart was thrilled and elated

9. I recognized a ruin, uninhabited
I stopped and interrogated it insistently

10. Until when standing there long in Dimnah
Silent, which the spring had given fine dress

11. A desert whose traces appear in its ruins
After friends, Creating, then ceasing to create

12. I urged on the ruins, questioning them
While the eye flows with copious tears

13. So I sent the whispering winds like
Silent pursuers, hastening, speeding

14. Blackness stopped them; they see for them
A purpose and flames that lick them

15. They passed the night to a rocky alcove
Lightning flashes pour upon them

16. From the direction of a lofty pillar obeying its command
Lightning flashes hasten its pillars

17. He folded his hands to his cheeks distressed
Scattering the plaits of the tresses

18. As if he were a blind man, taking counsel with himself
His kin have gone and ties are severed

19. On a hill, whose plants it was proud of
Blooming, with wild beasts nesting in it

20. The two felt dread in the dawn, from fear
Of a growling hyena, so they recoiled in fear

21. He has ragged garments, short and worn
Wrapped round his waist, encircling

22. With it he came in the morning, while in its folds
Spaciousness, his weeping and wailing echoing loud

23. Hoping and anticipating his companion
Would heal his grief when the dawn breaks

24. He went tossing his belly hair from time to time
Like a lizard, its color changed bizarre

25. Was that or this? Or did a ship sail by
Leaving the decoy a swift bird fluttering?

26. Effacer of tracks, forgetter of dwellings, roamer of plains
Doddering, turning its back, dragging its train

27. In hardship of epochs, their loins exalted
New generations, while their blackness paled

28. Their saliva flowed on their chins, which deceived them
With coolness on their shoulders, customs

29. He denies bucks as the old man startles them
A decrepit that butts them, biting the flanks

30. A troop that passed by ruins and gave it
Those it did not desire, without a marriage payment

31. They turned away when it fancied wickedly
Until it went on and rejected morals

32. After vileness they shoot him with glances
A sun that has enraged them with burning