1. When her lovers saw her beauty,
they were captivated by it in the gardens of fascination,

2. her hair distracted the blackness of their eyes,
and she was adorned by their lasting whiteness.

3. Return to the beauty of loyalty, for the ugliness
of betrayal is the argument of the afflicted lover's comfort.

4. Beauty cannot protect your integrity,
except by you protecting the integrity of lovers.

5. O you who hastily estrange him,
and place the yearning of passions between the ribs!

6. What right does a heart have that has been sincere to you in its love,
that you sever it with separation and abandonment?

7.
How could you desire this or that, while I am

8. the trusted one in the correctness of the covenant?
And by the taste of bitterness from the fruit of estrangement,