1. Ask the one with loss and vigil
The antelope of the desert

2. Has she seen one with twisted locks
To a second loosened hair

3. Who would resist eyes of a gazelle
Lined heavily with kohl

4. Were she to look his way, he would not recoil
He'd befriend the barren land

5. But it settled in my passionate heart
The only home, the beloved lands

6. I shun revelry and damsels’ play
But my sorrows and longing remain

7. So turn from me blame and rebuke
Do not reproach or punish me

8. When I cry aloud, drunk with love
And longing fists my heart

9. My glances like arrows sped
To strike my fate and doom

10. My heart called, rallying me
To march and not to flee

11. Where, oh where, can I find rest
From agony, from pain?

12. Parted from a lovely gazelle
Of heavy-lidded eyes

13. Is there a path to union
Or must I only brace?

14. Long has this misery endured
My secret's widely known

15. Your eyes' arrows mortal are
Of Indian aloes’ poison

16. No blade has ever pained my soul
On the day we faced each other

17. Like eyes whose kohl and color
Stab me when I see them

18. No reproachful glance of his
In passion's fury hurled

19. With the heart's blood dripping red
Could overcome my soul

20. Has he seen a fool so crazed
So drunk with love as I?

21. God and fate have sorely tried me
With flames which daily sky

22. I see his nature isn't fair
Or human in its mould

23. A gazelle cannot help but charm
When graced in beauty's robe

24. He captured my heart and ensnared
Imprisoned it close by

25. In my tears, I said "Beware
Lest ink betrays you too"

26. Guard your cloak from staining brush
For it has conquered me