1. Does an unjust ruler have power over a gazelle
Who is unjust in all her ways

2. Always turning away from me, so she doesn't
Remember me at all

3. She is small but my love for her
Grew, and I respected her greatly

4. Her beauty averts all eyes
With an amulet against her evil deeds

5. A maiden who prides herself on her ancestors
The Persians and the Romans and their clans

6. I did not obey the slanderers about her though
She listened to the words of her slanderers

7. She comes at night, and when dawn breaks
The sun comes with her coming

8. I saw her leg bared
Of the trailing hems of her gowns

9. If not for the cold on her leg
It would have burned from the fire of her anklets