1. O heart, leave them be, for you have tried their betrayal,
And in trials, after going astray, what avails anxiety?

2. Did absence atone for what they gained, or did
The days make you forget, after separation, what they did?

3. Grant them goodness. Did it make them return
To you and your presence, or did longing draw them near?

4. Were you not yesterday parted from youth? Yet nothing
Is dearer than it, so why does grief not restore it?