1. Though unwilling, I prolong estrangement from you
And afflict a heart that has not ceased to ache for you.

2. Yet in my aloofness I am not the first lover
Who saw some of what he did not desire, so avoided it.

3. He avoided the roads of union, but found
No escape from you in the vast earth.

4. So he went back to union in surrender
And returned to what you desired, asking forgiveness.