1. My night grew long, and I could bear no more
I tossed in anguish, wrapped not in my gown

2. How not, when grief assailed my soul so sore?
And sorrow clutched my aching heart in pangs

3. I thought of our union, ere we said farewell
Ere slanderers could their lies ‘gainst us propound

4. Then flowed my tears, my longing plain to tell
And my affliction made itself full clear

5. Love’s truth I told, called out my heart’s demand
You came to me with all that I held dear

6. For life is but reunion and farewell
Giving and taking, fortune good or bad

7. Of all of this, so much my heart befell
One eye flows free, the other stays unsad

8. The flowing one, to patience I exhort
The dry one, unto fate I give accord

9. No chance misfortune can my will distort
Nor any happiness make my soul drunk