1. O mule, my father's white mule, you have learned
That I swore oaths and made vows

2. That you would surely be saddled, though you hate it,
With what pleases me, and all that is easy.

3. In spite, o son of a donkey, you cut it short,
Deliberately, while you are pampered and patient,

4. Until you visited, listening in his house,
And saw the maid with jugs turning around.

5. They don't know the harm your neighing causes me,
And if you get angry, that matter is small.