1. The pangs of longing since we parted I've endured,
Yet my longing for you no solace affords.

2. I pine from yearning and heartfelt desire,
I moan like one sick, whom fate won't conspire,

3. As if my heart's a hearth aflame fed by sighs,
That stir like gusts making embers arise.

4. My body is gaunt from the pain and distress,
That others can see, when my state they assess.

5. Sleepless I lie there's no comfort for me,
Just groans through the night, my sad state they relay.

6. I long for my family, clan and abode,
But stronger by far is my longing for God.

7. Joy and nearness, no other compares,
No distance divides, this exile He shares.

8. Whence storms would dishearten, you lent me your strength,
Though time in its fury sought to go to great lengths.

9. A help you will prove when foes give me strife,
To the noble your aid brings fullness of life.

10. Still you show a kindness that never grows old,
Your graces exceed what can ever be told.

11. Our parting was not of my own free accord,
But what will of fate can resist or be ignored?

12. The least of the burdens of sorrow it brought,
Would shake mountains firm that centuries wrought.

13. And if I should voice the complaints in my soul,
Even rocks would be melted, iron rend and extol.

14. Yet whatever injustice time's vicissitudes give,
I'm resigned, God granted, I'm blessed that I live.