1. Tell the graceful gazelles grazing the meadows,
"Take pity and rest your weary wanderings."

2. My heart is still wounded since you left me
So have mercy and heal my sleepless nights.

3. Your absence troubles me, by my life,
How can I find peace so anxious inside?

4. My thoughts were scattered by playful gazelles
As one suddenly bounded away.

5. I'm bound by the fetters of love and desire
I who once dwelled free of such chains.

6. My eyes are sick from crying themselves dry
As the long night stretches with no end in sight.

7. I pity the lovelorn fool who vainly hopes
Each drink will quench his raging inner fire.

8. My wishful dreams continually promise
Your return though I know they always lie.

9. How strange to have wet eyes that never tire
And a heart your coolness has set aflame!

10. When our poet sang your praises, his words
Were drowned by the tears that flowed uncontained.

11. If my passion should shred me to pieces,
My feet would not stray from the path to your lane.

12. If my arms were severed by a sword,
My hands would still knock at your door just the same.

13. The morning breeze carried your sweet scent
As you passed by, and left us all charmed.

14. By your beauty, the dark vale of night itself
Was cleft open to reveal the glorious day.

15. Look kindly on one who is sick with desire,
Who has climbed to love's end without fears.

16. Forgive him, for he was created by God
To burn with devotion that nothing can tame.

17. Grace him gently, let no harshness show.
Draw near and console him, gazelles of the glade!