1. Your tenderness, fear not my harm or misery
For I have neither fang nor nail

2. Your tenderness, flutter not your wings in dread
Nor dart at me your eyes in evil glare

3. Wary, yet by my side, O bird, for mankind
A world of love and verse the birds do share!

4. Does this burden trouble you, neighing beneath it
My steed, whose patience fails to set us free?

5. These steps do stir the earth, were it not for kindness
Sprinkling her dust with teardrops from the sky

6. The breathing from my lips could almost
Spill a ray through its sighing sorcery

7. You tucked your wingtips showing your alarm
And held back from pecking in your injury

8. You said, exaggerating: some human from the world
Is a treacherous partner cloaking trickery!

9. Your tenderness...Suspicion is a sin. I'm not
In this world but a stranger traveling afar

10. Your tenderness...I'm not one who'd wish me well
Through another creature's agonizing scar

11. Ask the fluttering of stars in the gloom of night
The murmuring of dawns in wakefulness ajar

12. Ask the scent of flowers wafting on the hills
The rustling of the willows by the river shore

13. Ask the dewy valley, verdant, fresh and fragrant
Overlooked by slopes in emerald array

14. Ask them, for in my heart with every breath
There is a trace that waters my concealment, my mystery

15. Ask about the songs of life, for there remains
A returning echo of virgin melodies

16. If cruelty of fate has muted them a while
In the soul there's a tune beyond the reach of misery

17. A caged bird may fall silent, yet within him
A yearning that stirs the soul towards the open sky

18. I wished to be your friend throughout your life
Shielding you myself from treachery and guile

19. My evenings glow with your exquisite beauty
Your starry nights leave me drunk, bewildered and beguiled

20. Your shade mischievously stalks me in the field
I leap across the thorns chasing after you, a child

21. I revel beneath the nest in a snug refuge
Where morning dew spills from chalices of flowers wild

22. My bed is cushioned verdure, fresh and green
Though pillows I have none but rocks upholstered

23. A cloak of oak leaves protects my naked body
From the harm of cold and heat unhampered

24. Dreams conjured up by roving fantasy
Spun in my mind's enchanted vales unfettered

25. I dreamt of them a while in absent thought
But woke to find my visions fled in terror

26. I thought to summon them but there stood between us
Shadows of reality and introspection somber

27. You brought their phantoms back to my broken heart
And magic flowed again through its fragmented chambers

28. You made me forget the anguish of a world
Shaken by storms spreading death on land and sea

29. Destruction reigns within its charms
And lust for evil - though forbidden - has its power over me

30. So let my sealed eyelids harbor them a little
And let my lips gently graze their phantom forms

31. Do not destroy, with doubt, our dreams' delight
For they are but a moment...then, who knows what's in store!