1. The tongue with which I wove your praise
Can undo what it has woven

2. Yet I will not mar my virtue
Though hurt by gross affront from you

3. I have two goals, and I do not follow
The first, which leads to lies when difficulties arise

4. What can protect the good man from one who harms him
In ignorance, when problems grow?

5. For you, I chose a gentle scent of musk
So do not make it malodorous