1. Tell the one for whom you have postponed death
There is no ship of yours that sails in my sea

2. I am from the purest lineage of the desert
Yet I pine for you, I who am so chaste

3. I have no religion that gives me hope
Of deliverance, after the ebbing of death's tide

4. Do not think, Nike, that this is a thing
The like of which has been or will ever be

5. You have two qualities from Paradise:
Its coolness, like its coolness, and its bowls

6. Except that its coolness is wholesome, while
In you no wholesomeness, but hidden disease