Sol 6.1

  1. I shall go far from you and discipline myself,

    and see how my patience and resolve fare.

  2. Then either my love for you will leave me,

    or my death will come to join me.

  3. And I have two companions: longing and tears,

    who aid sleeplessness against my sleep.

  4. I say, when the south wind blows by night:

    My greeting to the encampment and its dweller.

  5. And once the dream-vision aided an eye

    kept sleepless, against streaming tears.

  6. And if sleep returned, it would restore my union with you,

    but there is no way to sleep.

  7. Your sheath [wording uncertain] is in a love-stricken heart,

    and in blood-stained, bleeding eyelids,

  8. and in one who longs for you, who counts finding solace

    and patient endurance without you among sins.

Sol 6.1