1. How can I endure, when you are the delight of my eye,

    yet it sees you scarcely once in a year?

  2. And in what can my heart find joy when you are ab—

    —sent, if you are the joy of hearts?

  3. I swear by Him who poured light upon your counte—

    —nance, making it the sun’s rival bride.

  4. Indeed, any day on which I behold your beauty

    is, to me, a bright blaze upon the brow of Time.

  5. O you who turn away, for whom I thought nothing of

    my weariness and the harm I bore:

  6. Be mindful of God concerning the last spark of my life;

    He does not let even an atom’s weight go to waste.

Sol 5.6