1. Like a babe I wept when deprived of the breast,
And the doves moaned for their nest.

2. I bid the breeze convey loving greetings,
but the errand was lost, lost in oblivion.

3. Greetings of a lover, true of heart,
Sincere in love and passion's smart.

4. A heart pure as water, gentle in its ways,
Its emotions flowing as one, as a stream stays.

5. It preserved allegiance, like blood congealed,
As hearts blood within it sealed.

6. To the one I cannot forget, greetings I send,
From a longing heart, to comprehend its friend.

7. What good is a message, or sending it ahead?
Naught remains except what's said.

8. With the one whose heart resides in me,
Happy is my heart, enjoying such constancy!

9. Would that my heart with you could yet stay,
And not be forced to go away.

10. Not like the rest of men, thinking thereof.
Would that I were with you, like my heart!

11. But that's not easy, we're apart.
So to you my heart I bid goodbye,

12. While my body, sickened, heaves a sigh.
Would that I were you, would that we never part!

13. But you, O heart, are the greater part.
Consumed by love, rapturous flame,

14. Beware of fires that scorch yet claim.