1. The sorrows have overwhelmed me, oh how they gush
For one who finds faults in you, in blame and hush

2. If they but knew what I have come to feel
Of longing between ribs for you so real

3. My teardrops before them have flowed in a stream
For a lover's secret is by tears seen

4. Who can I blame that I fear estrangement
In days of union from one so impatient

5. He has plucked straight branches from a sweet rod
And told thirsty gazelles where waters trod