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I long for my beloved [*yar*], *Yar*, *yar*. *Yar*, *na*, *nay*, *nay*, *nay*, *na* *Yar*, *na*, *nay*, *nay*, *nay*, *na* More than for the rose and the violet. *Yar*. *Vay*, *le*, *le*, *le*, *le*, *le*, *Vay*, *le*, *le*, *le*, *le*, *le*! I have cast my eyes upon the mountain, I have set my foot against the mountain stone. May it go and never return, The year they enlisted you [as a] soldier! Let me stand upon the stone and the mountain, [And] write a letter to the exiled beloved [*gharib yar*]; Let me write [it] with tears, [and] cry out:— May such a year turn to poison!