1. Longing, estrangement, and illness -
Indeed, the likes of me are in severe torment.

2. Such is love, not the pretense of people
Who talked of passion by mere tradition.

3. O you who are near yet remote,
Far, yet not far,

4. Never before your body did we see a body
Of granite, with a heart of iron.

5. I fear it would melt on both sides
When he walks heavily because of the cold weather.

6. Will I, if filled with longing for you,
Pray over a poor stranger deceased?