1. Today my sorrows have returned to me,
And I recalled my youth in days gone by,

2. And I recalled a gazelle, mother of a fawn,
Yearning for her stirred my heart painfully.

3. Do not blame me, my old friend,
For in me, my friend, is what has sufficed me.

4. For time brings me happiness for a while,
Then assails me with sorrow for a time.

5. Do not blame me, though you adorned her for me,
You are like Satan to man.

6. For love has crept into my innermost being,
Exposing my bones, flaying my skin.

7. If only you had seen with your eyes, my friend,
That night on the hillside, what sights met our eyes!

8. As the cape and veil appeared with pearls,
With buttons of coral inlaid.

9. And before me she snubbed the other women,
After she had been enamored of singing girls.

10. And I wish time would unite us again,
With you giving us drink as in days gone by.

11. Would that I could buy from her for myself
A love like mine with my arm and my money!

12. My right eye twitched with good fortune -
That eye is trustworthy in its twitches.