1. Why do you turn away from me, denying
My plea, refusing to address my complaining?

2. You resolved, but then unresolved; would that I knew—
Never should your resolve waver and fade like the dew!

3. If you told me to buy your balsam with coins
I’d have left them untouched till I was laid in my groins

4. Long has my hope been deferred; tomorrow yet—
My life runs out, still the expectant lives free of regret