1. Seek out the meadows of soft grass,
And restrain yourself from childish play,

2. And though my words have faded like rays of light,
Oh soul, go grieving and melt away.

3. While my neighbors, whom bounty has watered,
Were revived by a sip of the cupbearer.

4. The free time of youth has passed as plunder,
With its people, and now it's the era of old age.

5. The gazes that drip honey have avoided me,
While the looks of the censurers scorch like flame.

6. O doe-eyed one, how I wish
That you would graze in my heart upon love.

7. And you would graze your eye upon a flower of tender meadow
In a pasture above your cheek that knows no misconduct.

8. I loved you since the sun rose on the horizon,
And the deer’s brother inclined toward sunset.

9. Draw near to your roses, then come close
As a bird in love hovering over its nest.

10. How often have I knocked insistently upon you
And how often on the day you turned away did I hobble away!

11. On a morning when the sands of grief parted ways
Breaking off from the sands of the dune.

12. More yellow than the beasts of the wasteland
It beckoned to me with its moist tuft.

13. I lay in wait for the slumber of the heads
Until the watcher’s eye dozed off.

14. And the night came, its tail dripping wet, walking
Hesitantly, on tiptoe with tottering staff.

15. It bent its neck shedding its tears
Lamenting with whimpers and moans.

16. So I stood, more wakeful than it, to take a sip
Sweeter than wine for drinking.

17. And we stayed where no eye could see us
Except for the morning breeze blowing from the south.

18. It conversed with me, and I was distracted
From it by the false dawn.

19. Until its eyebrow rose like the sun,
And the star turned its wing toward setting.

20. Then I stood to bid farewell, stroking
A branch that the cold night had withered.

21. And I returned alive, nothing clinging to my chill
Except a fragrance clinging to my clothes.