9.5

Why are you weeping,
why are you raving?
Your friends are all laughing
at how you’re behaving;
Don’t, jealous girl, be so cross with Krishna.

Fruitfully feast on Krishna
your eyes;
On a dewy lotus petal bed
he lies.
Don’t, jealous girl, be so cross with Krishna.

Why let such sorrow
weigh upon your heart?
Listen to all I have to say
about sad lovers far apart.
Don’t, jealous girl, be so cross with Krishna.

Why be so lonely?
Why feel blue?
Let Krishna now come
and speak sweetly to you.
Don’t, jealous girl, be so cross with Krishna.

Krishna’s deeds are captured here
in my charming rhyme;
May connoisseurs of verse be pleased
by Jaya·deva’s song sublime.
Don’t, jealous girl, be so cross with Krishna.