1. Grant me patience when passion appears,
And command my gaze not to look.

2. How can I conceal myself when tears
Speak and expose what I harbor?

3. O you, who bring me sorrow yet joy,
Who makes life bitter yet sweet.

4. Perhaps you've tested me with aloofness
To see if I fall short.

5. Do not be doubtful, for longing
Has its promised time of disclosure.

6. I testify you trust me,
Though you pretend otherwise.

7. You know my loyalty,
My keeping secrets, and do not deny.

8. But you shunned when bored,
And recalled what you recall.

9. You blame, seeking what makes me
Deserve your estrangement, yet cannot.

10.
What harm in my fame,

11. If your secret remains unexposed?
Do you fear rumors spreading,

12. While my fortune in modesty is more?
Had I no remnants left for you,

13. I'd look at myself as you do.
If you fear me when content,

14. And claim I cannot conceal.
Why do you shun me unjustly,

15. And anger me yet not beware?
Had I been but a boulder,