1. What is the benefit of being near you
If proximity does not yield sincere affection?

2. I used to complain of distance until we met -
Today, I'm grateful for distance.

3. Proximity did more than distance
To my heart - such torment!

4. Indeed, my longing and burning and sleeplessness
Have increased because of you.

5. Had you done to my soul what you did,
My true beliefs would be no more.

6. And if you are in God's grace and bounty,
Then that is what I desire.