1. My heart I leave aflame with love and longing
And sweetest praise for you pours forth like ambergris

2. Be gentle - since you left, my tears are yet unshed
Though my patience is tried and my hair turned grey

3. My days are long as Judgement Day since we parted
My land has become a battlefield for my foes

4. Each bough of the sandalwood, so lovely before
Now hides in shame beneath its leaves, true and tender

5. That eye whose sickness and whose love I shared
Now turns from me, and tears my heart with sorrow

6. When the writer adorns the page with his artistry
The eye falls in love with his cheek, so touching

7. If camphor seems pale, it's but from fear
Its radiance is subdued by the dew that wets it