Sol 5.6

  1. Let me behold you at every moment—

    your phantom, which I capture and which captures me.

  2. I commune with it as though you were beside me,

    and fill my eyes with its beauties.

  3. Let me sing of your precious name,

    and remember it, that my sorrows may depart.

  4. Let beauty’s phantom visit in the languid night

    and delight me when my eyelids sleep.

  5. Through union with you, I pass the night in bliss;

    but when morning comes, my longing wears me down.

  6. Let me compose of you, from the heart,

    a poem fashioned like precious pearls.

  7. Let me release the tears within me

    and mingle them with the repeated cadence of lament.

  8. True to my pledge, my devotion, and my love,

    even though the faithful covenant cost me my life.

  9. Let me call all creation to witness, one and all,

    that you yourself dwell in the current of my eyes.

  10. I love you as long as breath courses through my soul

    and flows in pure devotion—will you have mercy on me?

Sol 5.6