1. My heart gained not what I hoped from you
If ever it turned from loving you one day

2. I've been denied what I desire of meeting you
If it settles on other than you, turned astray

3. My friends, return to the pact of youth
Fulfill your promise to reunite, don't delay

4. And if you're miserly with your greeting
May the east wind blow you and the north wind away

5. You've burdened lovers with love's heavy load
When your traveling party packed up and moved away

6. And you shed my bloody tears when you left
Your dwellings spilled them, though I pled you to stay

7. I clung to you as a child, till my hair turned grey
From long estrangement, aloofness, and betrayal

8. Take pity on a heart, ally of passion, that ne'er
Disobeyed love's command, nor flouted its sway

9. What can bring back nights I spent in joy and prime
That have passed, changed, not to return, melted away?