1. A fawn from Damascus, an eloquent word as if peering out,
At people, from the oppressions, aggrieved,

2. Or a blackened wilderness where shadows have settled
Upon the misery of an unresolved matter,

3. Sorrow that defers torments and brings them together
Around the victims like sheep without a shepherd,

4. He herded them for months, the deserts were his pasture,
Embracing the valleys, unharmed,

5. Two months of spring in which the land sits beautifully
Until mid-summer with flowers blooming everywhere,

6. With nightfall, darkness still has for it
Tumult or late rain after settlement,

7. Until when the confused one came to his senses, he had
A departing guest whose nonsense was like raving,

8. He remembered the flowers and his thoughts rejoined
In the eve of a day with a poisoned star,

9. She called and waited, where would he make it up to her
Burdened with an unborn child,

10. Rider of the meadows, he wouldn’t stop violating
The wives of others forcefully and bitterly,

11. And he kept wondering which of the two pastures would bring her
Closer, at the farthest point of the valley, ill-fated,

12. The slopes or the euphrates waters, he brings her
Like one who casts divine arrows, obedient,

13. Until when the night grew still, it provoked her,
Firm news and a garment for germs,

14. He meets her, if not for his flaw
That rejects temptation and is mean with lovers,

15. Until she met him a third time
At a well-known watering place,

16. He feared for her a lake that he had prepared
In an obscure place of the dusty earth, damned.