Sol 5.6

  1. God has permitted the dearly cherished gazelle

    to torment me—the ardent lover—forever, and to shun me;

  2. and forever forbidden the lovestruck wanderer to forget,

    ordaining annihilation for him in passion.

  3. Yet I have slain my heart’s power to forget,

    and made the blood flow from it.

  4. He said, “You have killed what has become forbidden;

    for that I shall make your death the recompense.”

  5. I said, “If you decree that I be slain,

    then may God console you well for losing me.

  6. And in killing me, carry out the decree well:

    the best of people are those who best discharge what is due.”

Sol 5.6