Alas, my beauty has abandoned me! If it were otherwise you would not wish to kill me nor would you have humiliated me in such rude fashion, striking me in the face.
What have I done?
Do not kill me! Merely because I cannot work like you
Do I deserve this horrible punishment,
Dying so slowly, my two hands pierced with nails?
Do not do it, lest those that love me
Should not accept the excuse that you did not know who I am and your name should be a thing accursed forever.
For I was the honor of our native land and there is no more beauty there since I am there no longer.
And what will they say if they learn that it was you who killed me, nailing me thus?
The Deserter (sharpening the nails on a stone): What use are all these words?