1. I fled to the rock of certainty from doubt
And when the deluge raged, I embarked upon the ark

2. It grieves us, O beauty, to see
Your beauty in a monastery veiled for devotion

3. We have lost a beauty from you that we can never regain
So how could it be when you have given it to God in bond?

4. You turned away from this world while you are its delight
While others toy with scheming and slander

5. If you wished, O beautiful one, you could have been a queen
For your beauty is for the throne and kingdom

6. Goodness is yours in the monastery you companion
And it was better suited than your chambers for leaving

7. For there you will gain more piety and chastity
As purified gold gains by burnishing and refining

8. Your chastity among the people has diffused like a lily
And it wafts in the monastery's courtyard like musk

9. There, there is no evil, deceit or jealousy
That leads those in love among us to murder

10. Never a day when I visited you
That I said come, and you said stop, do not weep

11. You shed my blood when you glanced with an eyelash
Though weak, it became most vicious in slaughtering

12. And you scattered tears from it until I thought them
Pearls of a necklace scattering off the string

13. Though my house is near you, I wasted away out of yearning
So how could it be when my heart despairs of you eternally?

14. Is there one who will answer if I come questioning?
Is there in the corridor of time an informer about you?