1. Tell us soon what you command us
For my heart is held captive in India

2. I see naught but love's watcher
Will end it, fearing we're found out

3. Then she said, I wish a cure
For you kept safe from dawn would ensue

4. If remoteness in India comes our way
We fear we'll never reunite one day

5. So she gestured my heart is sick
With love for you, knotted inside

6. Seek a wise confidante, poetry's ally
Subtle for what you intend, discrete and sly

7. No friend betrays, but perhaps
The obedient seem benign

8. Seeing his act, he confides in him
Though he betrays, a traitor in kind

9. God knows he's trustworthy
Treachery's essence is base by design