1. I traded my sorrows for cheerfulness,
And love has bound me with affliction.

2. Were it not that I mastered patience over my heart,
It would have oozed like honey from a comb.

3. He reproached me saying, had I neglected him,
I said the meeting is on the straight path.

4. Were it not that when he blamed me
He was forbidden from sitting on my carpet.

5. So I said to him with the reasoning of my mind,
That he may excuse the love of maidens with dangling tresses.

6. Your fault with me and your words, leave them be,
Are more hurtful to me than the stroke of whips.