1. Do you deny what ribs conceal inside
When tears have testified to you their tide

2. Had not your heart been drunk with passion's wine
No lightning of desire would you abide

3. Nor would your deepest sorrows start to whine
Suppressed, nor call so loudly far and wide

4. Soft breeze and twilight your desire provoke
As homes provoke the breeze from every side

5. Nights once joined, now from each other broke
Though destiny shattered bodies unified

6. Planets that set, would I but know their lore,
Do they, when gone, in other sphere abide?

7. I told my heart to gently love ignore
Reluctantly, but it will not decide

8. And if my heart cannot such love endure
Why do I blame it for what can't abide?