1. My illness has come between the rhymes and me;

    the rhymes’ eye wept with longing—and mine did too.

  2. To my homeland I owe a debt, yet it is not

    within my power to discharge this debt.

  3. In it, among time’s vicissitudes, is a calamity;

    my inability to ward it off has become a second calamity.

  4. Indeed, a day on which I compose no poetry

    is surely hateful to the sons of the two lands.

Sol 6.1