1. I see the magic his languishing eyelids convey
Yet it accepts no explanation or display

2. Symbols and secrets of suffering it unravels
To what you see of my leanness it led astray

3. Laxity drips upon my heart, crouching
More penetrating than a sword when it's sheathed away

4. The fever of his glance, the apple of his cheek
Provides no scent to relish, no bite to assay

5. His waist eluded perception and imagination
No embrace hoped for, no clasp can hold its sway

6. It pains me that the mouth of youth forever
Kisses in secret the rose and its tender sprays

7.
By my father, from all that appeared to it

8. My tears in complaining of longing turned away
I'd accept his love's caprice and be content

9. If only with my blood he would be satisfied
So in my life there is nothing I own

10. Except the torment I see in his love, binding its stay

11. A breeze came blowing, with its satisfaction feigned
So tears burst their seal from my eyelids’ display

12. Crying out, complaining of parting for free
And sometimes waking though I no sleep could pay

13. From the morn's mouth dawned a little smile
That the cloud's eyelid sensed, so it slipped away

14. Its warbling left me in sorrow and grief
And flew off with my heart where I could not essay

15. My fanciful thoughts fancied its visions' flight
So I pressed my cheek to the road where it held sway

16. For if the rule of innocent love insists
That only pure blood may follow in its way

17. Then spilled tears have shed their hue
On my cheek's earth however it wished to spray

18. Time confused me, wronging love
Leaving me unable to conclude or gainsay