1. Relentless longing insisted we draw near,
While chaste shyness insisted we steer clear.

2. A guardian from you kept watch over my heart
Making your avoidance difficult to bear.

3. Yet here I stand, though often set back,
Whenever my ship embarked, disembarking.

4. No boredom made me turn away from you,
Nor did my passion for you make me err.

5. That chasteness was but good counsel,
And those revulsions but prudent fear.

6. No estrangement but overflowing fervor,
No consent without love-inflicted pain.

7. He who spurns pure, sweet water and
Shuns it for dog's urine angers with disdain.

8. When one cannot obtain what he desires
He takes what comes, will he or nill he.