1. Is this a forced friendship after long estrangement and separation?
Alas, you cannot adorn a relationship you have forced

2. My dear, refrain from deceiving my reproach
With pretend affection and sincerity

3. It is I who clung to the branch of love
Until it almost broke from lack of reciprocity

4. And I remain as devoted as you know me to be
So do not ever be other than loving and faithful