1. Is this how you fulfilled, O apathetic one,
Your world filled with captivating love?

2. O you whose eyes blaze in defiance,
Your charming dawn a place of refuge.

3. Are you steadfast or pretending?
Love you've concealed, so cruel is time.

4. With the universe your eyelids and what escaped
From burning the beholder allowed.

5. And the soft, pure stream - the length of your tears
Played by the raining pearls.

6. All the glory of beauty or its magic
Snatched by a passing thought in your tear.

7. Or a glance suddenly that in one leap
Makes the poet crazed by it.

8. God keep you, what is this
Agitation and agony, O schemer?

9. I adjure you by kinship - what is this
Descending and ascending and confused?

10. What would stop you - just spill out
What you implied, O lively one.

11. Is this how you are, warlike in love,
Your hand filled with slackened bowstring?

12. Love weighs you down and you pass time in woe
When you are, my soul ransomed, so young.