1. With the flexing of her slender waist she sways
Like a branch above the sandy dunes

2. My eyelids have become dark with lack of sleep
As her eyes have robbed me of rest

3. I try to sip from her mouth
While the snakes of her cheeks creep to kill me

4. Your alluring glance, O gazelle of the dunes, slays me
And your love melts my joints within me

5. You shy away from me again and again
Though I have done no wrong against you

6. You incline to the shade of the sand dunes
And walk to the barren land toward the meadows

7. You drink from the fresh springs and graze
Among the does in the valley of meadows

8. Go straight with the free wind at dawn
To my companions at the wise encampment

9. And if you come with the moving sands
Convey my greetings and missives

10. Ask my heart where it has strayed
It will tell you of the dwellings it yearns for

11. Necklaces sway with pendants a-dangle
Shining like the sun beneath the veils

12. My color has yellowed with passion for her
While tears remembering her flow down my cheeks

13. I rejoiced when the youths were my aides
To her, fearing no watcher or chider

14. She visits me longing each day
Knocking at my door at dawn and in the evenings

15. She kisses my cheeks then turns away aloof
While my withered promise bears no fruit

16. The singing girls fear no watcher
When joining me, heeding no slander

17. God bless a passion fulfilled and a love
That perfumed my pleasures and graced my virtues

18. Like an apparition that stirred my resting place
But evaded my hand though I grasped for it