1. The chief was asked what he wanted at the camp
He replied, to enter. It was said, do not enter.

2. He said, I want to leave. It was said, do not leave.
He said, leaving is not easy.

3. My way is just to go in and out,
Disappearing and slipping away.

4. My heart's desire is to linger between hands
And my cure is going back and forth on feet.

5. That embrace and kiss are my concern,
And we both do not neglect our affair.

6. Though life has wounded me with a deep gash,
I do not kill when I strike.

7. And you see the noblewoman is truly mine,
As a protector and sanctity when I represent myself.

8. And for me alone what is heavy
Of obligations lightens through her.

9. That's why she answers when I call
Without resisting, so I rise and she yields.

10. Every love is labor but my passion
For her is without toil.

11. When she complies that is her nature
And when she refuses that is her coquetry.

12. For me she adorns herself so when
She sees me she does not pretend.

13. For her I yearn so when I'm absent
In the horizon the yearning does not cease.

14. I have the perfume and clothes,
All of it and the slaying.

15. And if my worth sinks among the company
For her my worth is exalted and ennobled.

16. Through her my life is sustained if I
Die and my strength increases when I wither.