1. I have loved you so much that I have come to hate being wary,
Keeping away from you and distant.

2. Yet in being near or far I have never been
Able to ward off from you an impending harm or transgression.

3. Like a partridge fearing that a hunter may suddenly pounce,
Though a hawk intent on the prey has flown far away.

4. And if after returning she saw him coming,
She could not stretch out a hand to him, try as she may.