1. I nearly died whenever the beloved was absent from me,

    yet his presence and his absence were the same.

  2. Whenever I came to him to complain

    of love’s torment, he would say, “You are an utter liar.”

  3. Perhaps God will gladden the state in which I have—

    found myself; everything that is coming is near.

  4. Among my family and kin, it is as though I were

    a stranger among them whenever I do not see you.

  5. Of my wounds, some sprouted in my liver; there poured—

    upon them a torrent of weeping.

  6. So abase me or honor me—for, by my life,

    no woman besides you has any claim upon me.

Sol 5.6