1. If they describe me, I am wasted in body;

    or if they probe me, I am white of liver.

  2. What has weakened my longing and worsened my sickness

    is that I voice my love to no one.

  3. I pressed my palm upon my heart because of

    sorrow’s searing heat, and doubled over my hand.

  4. Ah, for love! Ah, for my liver!

    If I do not die tomorrow, then the day after.

  5. My heart, whenever I remember them, seems

    prey caught between a lion’s forelegs.

  6. How deadly parting is to souls—and how

    painful to the liver is the loss of the beloved!

  7. I laid myself open to an affliction that

    ravaged my very lifeblood and my skin.

  8. Alas, that I should die imprisoned

    amid the churning of cares and hidden grief.

  9. Each day my eye gushes—a spring

    for an organ dying within my body.

Sol 5.6