1. Love made me laugh and cry
And longing stirred within my secret heart

2. For a radiant-faced maid, slender as a bough
Her perfect form, a castle in miniature

3. Elfin in human form, her plaited hair
Would suit a wanton or adulterer

4. As if from her beauty a pearl shone forth
Outstretched in a peasant's hand

5. Or a musk-pod mixed with ambergris
Cradled in a leaf of sweet basil.