1. O miser, even with returning greetings
An apparition of you visited me at dawn

2. When it came rending the wings of darkness
I said, welcome O guest, though but a specter

3. Whenever I drew near, it shrank away
And to receive it, from it wafted a scent

4. I said, how escape love of a fawn
Who has enchanted me, and nothing avails

5. With a figure that has hurled at me a lance
And a glance that has unsheathed against me a sword

6. So tears flow and the heat of flames
My eyes are awash, my heart but embers

7. My crop was his love I hoped to reap
But when the crop came, from it blew a gust

8. I saw him and my love for him grew
He saw me and against me wafted disdain

9. I swear by the Place, the Black Stone and the House
And whom it encompasses, protector and protected

10. That my love is sincere, of limpid quintessence
While the loves of the folk of this world are naught but tinsel