1. You were stingy with a scrap from a tattered book
Though once you were lavish with brilliant flashes

2. You warded me off with refusal when I asked
Though I didn't defend myself when you asked of me

3. I made profits easy for you for a while
Yet you became unjust in apportioning them

4. So I have prior merit that was rewarded by its opposite
And a bond of love in which you became estranged

5. You didn't know what the book was, but rather
The slanderer insinuated it to you, and he is a deceiver

6. My obstinate soul contends with me over seeking it
So I said to it when my hopes despaired of me

7. If tomorrow my preventer becomes my intercessor for it
How can I attain what is with the intercessor?