1.          

                

    Will you not have mercy on a yearning lover who loves you,

    Tormented, whom passion has consumed?

  2.          

           

    He spends his night and day amid his sighs,

    And distance and desertion have worn him away.

  3.        

             

    Take pity on him; do not be cruel,

    And ever enfold him in what he longs for.

  4.            

       ؟      ؟؟

    For separation harms and humiliates him—

    Why, then, would you deliberately do the very thing he fears?

  5.      

    Do you remember your sitting together in seclusion,

    In the garden, until you told me, “I love him”?

  6.            

             

    Do not betray the promise made to him, nor his covenants,

    And remember that time—how sweet it was!

  7.           

             ؟

    If you make his love a spiteful person’s plaything,

    One day you will say, “How can I meet him?”

  8.        

                   

    For honor, when it comes to loving him, demands

    Gentleness toward him—or that you meet him.

  9.            

                 

    Do not persist in this stubbornness, for it

    Will make you drink the bitterness of separation from him, with all its anguish.

  10.             

              

    Return to him, and do not hold your love over him as a favor;

    Be true to him in affection; do not forget him.

  11.         

          ؟؟؟

    O you who deny love for its beloved,

    Is this what you had in store for his happiness?

  12.      

             

    You make him drink bitterness from torment’s cups—

    Woe to you, who revel in his misery!

  13.          

                

    Hard-hearted toward him, you yearn to be parted from him,

    Until he suffers for nearly all that he has bestowed.

  14.    

           

    Had you been among those who show mercy to their lovers,

    You would have shunned what sears him with wasting pain.

  15.        

           

    The aim is always that you should reign supreme

    Through union, never turning back to seek another.

  16.          

             

    O Lord, bless the love that lovers share,

    And unite them in affection, O my Lord.

  17. 1967

    1967 CE

Sol 5.6