1. He persists in loving one I adore
Though he sees I won't turn from loving her

2. I said "You don't know what passion is, my dear
To me you're forgiven for what you aver"

3. How can one complain who's never felt
Sleepless eyes and a heart rent and distraught

4. One passion-mad since he was a lad
His body worn whom exhaustion fraught

5. A sand-hill she, a dune that lured me to her
With the misery of a reddened charming eyelid

6. A willowy branch gently swaying with green freshness
That pulls at the waist - heavy of hip

7. Ashamed is the full moon by her glances' luster
Her lovely face beautiful and fair

8. He boasts of his stinginess from my union
Yet he's generous to my remoteness, gentle and kind

9. If you're my departing one, that's for a sin
That was mine, for I am resigned

10. If I remember the garden of sorrow, there pours
From my lids over it tear on tear

11. So if I don't get my request from generosity
The brother of generosity will leave me ample

12. Sustained me, a youth, of old
And still we have long converse

13. Without him, I'd not have left my country
Nor from my homeland parted

14. Each gainsayer it shakes into desiring
So he pours out his gifts given free

15. That didn't increase wonder in him, but
Raised his rank, of great renown

16. His ambition's ambition is attaining the heights
Above the celestial sphere he'll not descend

17. A king - in his peace safety is guaranteed, and in his war
A sharpened blade

18. O victor's father! You have given victory to frontiers
After they were bound in inertia

19. And stopped bloodshed in every borderland
Through you thanksgiving was upheld

20. Thus kingdoms are ruled, and praise built
And ample glory and acclaim

21. While the wary stranger does not persist
In worldly cares, little will endure

22. So live and be safe as long as the sun circles in the world
And the brisk east wind blows