1. Connect with me, for love has possessed me, O fairest of mankind,
Yet you have severed me, cutting short my breath through estrangement,

2. You fixed your arrow in my heart, and it belonged to him
When you deliberately lodged it at the time of parting.

3. How often my tears flowed like the rising full moon
When I lost hope in the hand of the cruel one.

4. It flowed, but when I feared grief would reveal it
And my anguish, already spread among the people, would exult,

5. I hid my glance from its observer with a cup,
Deliberately, and drowned it in the darkness of the cup.