1. Between my ribs burned a fire,
And my heart took its reins and begged for help.

2. O heart, if you come to dwellings
Where my loved ones are not, weep for the dwellings.

3. If only they knew, when they left me behind,
I sent tears flowing copiously after them.

4. We drank the wine of the vineyards to the dregs;
If only we drank the wine of the battlefields to the dregs!

5. The wine whose jars the cushions shaded -
Happy were those made drunk on it, squirming about!

6. With does at the water-holes it made me sing,
And the does taught the wild goat to take fright.

7. How many times did we pasture our mounts
And cut from their cheeks the haltars!

8. Letting serpents glide on their backs,
Bristling, shooting their darts here and there.

9. With it we all cast dignity aside,
And truly, if we cast dignity aside!