1. Why does your heart still yearn for her
Neither dreams hold it back at dawn, nor admonition

2. Did a returning bird revive its passion
That it now longs for a time long past

3. The blamers only increased its love sickness
Its yearning, grief, anguish, and suffering

4. Its longing, burning, and sighing
You are not the first to leave home

5. And be led away by the hands of fate
It is time your passion was consoled

6. And you awake from it willingly or unwillingly
It would be best for your tears to stop flowing

7. And for your heart to stop yearning
The turns of fate have toyed with it, so do not

8. Despair, which would destroy it, or be patient, which would leave it
When the lithe one mounted the carriage

9. It too felt the very same yearning
The advisers warned it against passion

10. But it refused, though it would have triumphed had it heeded
Foolish is your mind for hoping

11. A return of what is past, now that old age has come and debilitated
Alas the days of youth and its bounty

12. When you lived in youth’s shade, indulged
Do not think the dwellings of love

13. Are those dwellings, and do not think those are the loved ones
Those lands are now barren and those gatherings scattered

14. No longer the brilliant one or the brilliant ones
Be brief, for the dwellings are empty, no passion left

15. To yearn for, no beauty left to desire
Naught remains but anguish or regret

16. That leave even the deaf rocks lamenting at night