1. When he insisted on tormenting me cruelly,
I prayed he'd be afflicted with love's agony,

2. And my prayer was answered instantly by God;
Now he's in anguish and passion's gravity,

3. Tasting from separation what he made me taste,
His body sickening just like my malady,

4. Once sparing of union, his love now
Has grown sparing even of dreams of me,

5. I left him pining, and another has pined
For another, raving for one in full bloom,

6. And another her love has pined for another,
Who's raved for yet one more in revel and gloom,

7. Oh, what an interlinked chain of love we are,
Allies of sorrow, my tears flowing as I pine,

8. We dwelt in love's cave, boon companions for years,
I by the door, with the worst place to pine,

9. The breaths of lovers rise up to it in passion,
Remaining in painful, ceaseless pant and pine,

10. Would that we gathered to speak of love's agony,
Or gain solace, conversing line after line,

11. Enough union for us to talk together,
Even if just to exchange greetings benign!