1. I passed by my youth after
My peers of youth and means were severed

2. So I was like a lost gazelle, then ceased not
To be entangled in sorrows

3. And I rise to serve the guest in weakness
When the niggard curtain is let down in refusal

4. He called and many dogs responded
Trusting I would do it

5. And nothing of my guest's provisions
Does my soul grudge saving proprieties

6. I conceal my friend's defects
When my fingers trace in honoring you

7. I built on the temper of men with greatest
Pliancy that bends between them in the joints

8. And a heart from which cares are averted, and if you wish
The unseen world informs you what you will do

9. And I am no jenny like you who bore
The burden of her stallion when she was pregnant

10. So I came, son of the dreams of sleep and found
No in-law for you but yourself to couple with