1. A stranger lying at the door of hope
Calling you, joined by passion, crying in anguish

2. The body's pain is slight, the soul at peace
Yet how, when the enthralled soul is wounded?

3. I love you but I fear and feel shy
If my heart should say you are its beloved

4. My path to you is ardour, wakefulness and longing
My tears flow in love and lament

5. They say to me, you are rich, yet my heart aches
I sing of it in solitude and weep

6. On the path of passion and night slumbering
Signposts now hidden, now bright

7. In the abode of ardour I have a state of rapture
In the secret of love, rising and resting

8. I wept from what I suffered from his torment
Yet love in those possessed cries out

9. A stranger lying at the door of hope
Calling you, joined by passion, crying in anguish

10. The body's pain is slight, the soul at peace
Yet how, when the enthralled soul is wounded?