I tourneyed with him careless of my fate.

When just a month had passed I lost the steed.

Hyzyya first, and then this noble horse.

He did not long survive my well-beloved.

They both are gone, leaving their last farewells.

O grief! my charger's reins have fallen down.

God made my life a death, in leaving me

Behind. For them I die. Oh, cruel hurt!

I weep for this just as a lover weeps.

Each day my heart burns fiercer, and my joy