1. Whether I obey you willingly or reluctantly,
And keep your secret hoping or despairing,

2. And if the slanderers spread your talk around me,
I meet their slander with your secret, resentful.

3. Reproaches find with you an ear that's receptive,
And me, averse to blame, steadfast, protective.

4. The mention of you stirs a rising, bitter sigh
As tears well up, cascade and multiply.

5. O you whose apparition fulfilled the dreamer,
Regretting the loss, hoping for reunion.

6. If the critics but knew of my fortune through you,
And my devotion, they would envy the ecstatic.