1. Had you wished, you could have held back your tears

    and kept them from the dwelling's faded traces.

  2. You loved her, a gray-haired woman, already beyond

    ninety in years by another nine.

  3. A songstress, from whose love you gained

    no pleasure for the eye or the ear.

  4. She makes the lute speak with a blackened hand;

    the lute prays for her hand to be cut off.

  5. She cannot bend, so dry is she; can

    the ben-tree's graces find their way to the nabʿ tree?

  6. So if she appeared before you crucified,

    you would take her for a log upon the log.

Sol 6.1