1. How strange that your face is turned away
While your deeds face towards me

2. Good you began with, and a house whose door
Is open to people, while your face is closed

3. Do you not see that amiability is a shield
From the evil that suspicions and hatreds beget

4. The adornment of manner is that one's words
Have a rhythm and a glancing charm

5. And an affection, folded up, outspread
In which, to succeed, are wound flexible chains

6. If you show a gloomy face beneath which
Are bounty and the reason of one who cannot be despised

7. Then, by a rain-pouring cloud over you
Its edge has been generous, and it does not dissolve away