1. Answer me, if you would,
With kindness, poor wretch that I am,

2. Shall I forget what your eyes
Promised with their generous glow?

3. Shall I restrict my hopes
Though my passions have no bounds?

4. Shall I be content with ashes though others enjoy the flames?
Shall I make my home in the waste

5. Though your face is paradise?
Shall I call a traitor friend

6. So a breaker of vows may prosper?
Shall I worship the blind

7. So the ingrate may endure?
Woe to a love whose pain I've borne alone!

8. I ready my strength for its burden,
Then its might overwhelms my strength.