1. No doe in the wilderness nurtures her fawn
With finer milk than she shows at daybreak

2. When her cheek and eyebrow appear.
One day she said to her servant,

3. "Stop the rider!"
So her companion said, "Why so gloomy

4. And frown-faced?"
She replied, "A nobleman came visiting

5. And passed us by."
A stranger came to our abode as guest

6. And I regret his leaving unsuccessful.
For love of you I've loved one who was not

7. My soulmate or boon companion.
And I spend my money to please you all,

8. Reproaching whoever finds fault with me.
I seek the love of those I never sought

9. Before your love to covet and desire.
If people should take one side of the earth

10. And settle, and the other side stay vacant,
I would follow their ruins, for I see

11. Being near them is a marvelous marvel.