Sol 5.6

  1. I once believed that yearning would bring him back,

    and that tears from the corners of my eyes would please him.

  2. But he turned away from my heart and wounded it;

    if only he knew what I endure.

  3. Would that his eyes, after all this estrangement, could see

    the soul tossed from one wilderness of bewilderment to another.

  4. !

    O you who gave me love’s sweet draught from your hand,

    I thirst—who, then, will give my heart to drink?

  5. A malady from you has touched it, for which there is no cure;

    and you alone, of all people, can heal it.

  6. O fairest of all people in my eyes, O hope of mine,

    many a night I have spent communing with him.

  7. I will keep our covenant, however long our separation lasts,

    and conceal the yearning in my heart and hide it.

  8. For your spirit dwells within my breast;

    so may God preserve my heart—and the one within it.

Sol 5.6