1. I sacrifice myself for one who knows not wandering astray,
And guidance to what could possibly please him.

2. Absent, but love leaves not my heart,
I was made to be ransomed from all that would console it for him.

3. Whenever he told me my pleasure lay in this,
And I chose it, he wanted other than it.

4. So I, for an age, and he, we seek something,
That has vanished from us, and we know not what it is.