1. I pleaded and pleaded, and I waited patiently,
We both did all we could.

2. I entrusted my heart to yours,
It was lost though I thought it secure.

3. I repeated my plea and repeated my tears,
Yet I have no intercessor with you.

4. Oh what a disobedient heart,
Which melts with love for an obedient heart.

5. Oh how I yearn for permitted hope,
It defends itself against formidable adversity.

6. Oh my sorrow for these songs,
I repeat them but there is no listener.

7. My exalted lady, my soul
Is brought close to you by noble passion.

8. And though days of clarity are delayed,
Its caravan is pursued by swift estrangement.

9. If spring has gone and I did not delight
In its verdure, spring will not return.