1. Your indifference - when you withheld affection - meant I saw
No tender companion to sit by me, no soothing melody.

2. You made a heart that loved you bitterly turn away,
And stilled dependents who can neither rest nor find peace.

3. But you cast off my heart with promises and wishes,
Never have I seen from you generosity or sincerity.

4. Do you forget my days wasting at your camp in misery,
Laid low in Damascus, sick, forsaken?

5. No friend will consent to a last bequest -
I call out for a drink to cure my sickness, but nothing slakes my thirst.

6. My greatest sorrow: to see a messenger come from you -
So my days stretch long as I sit watching the roads.

7. Woe to my liver, since I have no council with you,
I complain to Him who decreed all this about your orbits and their course.

8. I saw you grow more stubborn toward passion,
While my heart day by day grew more infatuated with you.