1. By my life, if he who brings you closer
Is sincere in his love, I deserve such closeness,

2. I will tend what you have not tended in me,
And guard what you neglected of love's sanctity.

3. When will you see me, oh unjust one, and realize
The symptoms of one whose inner secrets and heart are torn open?

4. Innocent, he wished for sin when you wronged him,
So that it would be said his death was caused by his sin.

5. And I used to complain of her rebukes and reproaches
She distressed me with reproach and blame;

6. Yet I tend to her absence and protect it,
Even when she gives me misery and distress.