1. The beloved was unfaithful though I wanted his affection
He kept his distance though I wished it were not so

2. Morning and eve he turned from me, angry and annoyed
When I sought him out he shunned me and pulled away

3. With conversation he's sparing and miserly toward me
Though freely I give my joy and all he might desire

4. I fear his disdain and our parting, which to a lover
Is awfully hard, a weight no shoulders can abide

5. O you whose call brought me close then unjustly did spurn
Return, for constant friendship makes one lauded

6. I oft think of you, your memory binds my tongue
I weep remembering what joys we once pursued

7. Do not persist in your coldness and kill me slowly
Help me in my cause, I'm wearied and subdued

8. Your love yet resides in my heart and swells with
Each breath though at times it softens with threads of hope

9. Until my body wastes away with longing for you
Naught left but dried up bones and leathered skin

10. Never does my heart turn from it, not one hour
And until I die it surely will not be removed

11. Your love dwells in me as though threaded through my ribs
My heart's with you, but its home is lost to me

12. Gone is my heart, I cannot sense its beat
I think it will return when again we meet

13. None but you, my darling, do I wish to love
For no fresh branch can sprout from withered wood

14. God bless the singers though their disdain pains me
When absent just one day, no vows they'll make