1. The ardor of passion when it cast you down and grieved me
When it saw your rejection of your pouring in vain

2. You broke the cord of love after its strength
And you have long said no - that was a breach

3. Where is the loyalty we thought we had
And what is this estrangement that came after that

4. Alas a breath exhaled in estranging you
And who tastes estrangement of one he yearns for tastes agony

5. I hoped one day he would stay with me
So I could complain of some of what I encountered but he did not stay

6. And how much I complained of what he did to me but he
Did not care for my pain, nor come to me, nor took heed

7. And how much I swore I would not reproach him
And I'm not the first one in love to break an oath

8. Woe to the lover when his loved ones shun him
One day he passed away, and if they had kept contact he would have lived

9. He passed away and the leaves grieved for him
So she lamented him amidst the strains of the melody, keening