1. Do not think that my heart has ceased to love you,
Though you have long estranged yourselves from me.

2. The covenants of affection I used to know
Are now quite lost while enmity roams free.

3. I do not despair that we shall reunite
For God may join estranged hearts suddenly.

4. I watch for the rising of a moon that brings
Our long-sundered love in bright effulgency.

5. If you assay the folk of this base world
You’ll find them vipers, scorpions, snakes to see.

6. And if you ponder all the news they bring,
‘Tis but pretense, prating and impiety.