1. Will you have patience tomorrow, or will tears flow
From your eyes like the dripping of water from mountain crags?

2. Stinginess when you come near, and yearning when far away -
Trouble and separation from a lovely dawn past.

3. Will tomorrow bring fulfillment if today holds excuse?
When hearts are twisted, resolutions do not come easy.

4. No doe in the thickets was without a shady, cool covert,
Or a place to rest in the midday heat.

5. Lovelier than them all when she appeared at dusk,
And the far ones were brought near when the veil was dropped.

6. May your life be granted by God, O youth,
By a sign she gave of when you would come,

7. And a sign she gave them at dusk
When shy faces peeped from behind the curtain.

8. They chose marks for themselves and shot arrows
At a brother lion when lionesses had overpowered him.

9. Then they put on their striped gowns as though they were
A raging she-camel with a weanling calf bleating.