1. This is a homeland awash with passions
Its trails and expanses traversed by destiny

2. Laden with the dust of lingering love’s affliction
Renewed by the promise of reunion, ever near

3. I shared out love’s raptures between us
Yet I got no thanks, he no prize

4. More wondrous than love are its hurts
If patience brings no redress, I’m the loser

5. He says, with my love plain on my face
My inner self bare before his eyes

6. Passions flow unbidden but mine
Are tamer, reined by politesse

7. See you not that between him and I
Love spurns reason, leaps faith’s bounds?

8. So I said: You can do anything yet
I cannot – some things lie beyond my reach