1. A letter came to me from my brother and father
So my longing was renewed from its languor and lethargy

2. And when it came to me, it revealed my worries
Like the joining of a lover with a distant beloved

3. I turn it over and fold it at times
And unfold it again to view those scenes

4. So I became full of intense longing as if I were
A lovesick brother stirred by the mention of past unions

5. Oh how in his estrangement and aloofness
I find sympathy for one pained like myself

6. And I have from fervent longing what dispelled
The sleep from my blissful, tranquil eyes

7. If a thousand lines, our hearts would not be solaced
By them, these rows of paper do not comfort us

8. If between reunion were swaths of distance
We would traverse them, braving the far stretches