1. If only our hearts had been steadfast in love
You wouldn't have complained, nor would I have complained

2. What has afflicted you and what has afflicted me in purpose?
It sufficed me and sufficed you - parting was its remedy

3. I never thought we would become like this
After intimacy, we seek more estrangement

4. If my suffering is not enough for you
Then some of it has sufficed me and has been enough

5. Go back to being extra in my youth
Do not think the days of youth will last

6. Do not complain of a poet whose flaws
For you have complaints that become elegies

7. And preserve his tears, for his tears
If his soul dies, he becomes perished

8. Poets revel in the days of youth
Like nightingales in spring, chanting