1. If the agony of passion were followed
By the coolness of union, I'd forgive the former for the latter

2. But no! I'm tormented by one who sleeps content
With ribs all vacant, and insensible of your torment

3. If they awake sober from the wine of love
You've been made to drink of passion a full draught

4. Oh would that your anguish had turned them to foes
Or would that their ease had but turned you their foe!

5. Abject yet proud in love, and greedy forever
God forbid this affliction of yours!

6. Oh heart, how you stuck in their toils,
When I knew you as one who slips free of snares!

7. You showed strength when their arrows sought you out
Once I'd have thought you impervious to the likes

8. If you've wasted in yearning, then love has drawn
This sickness over me, because of your draining away

9. Oh heart, if only you'd never left off from love
You'd have hung, from one love, something like it!

10. Do not complain to me, after them, of passion
They whose hands have brought this upon you

11. I'll punish you with estrangement! And yet
Had you not been, I'd ne'er have tasted love

12. Oh reproacher of the longing lover, leave him be
He who folds away sobs other than yours

13. If your heart were with him, you'd not blame him
Far be you from what's in him! Far be you!