Sol 6.1

  1. O Orzil—solace and consolation?

    Whether you live or die, surely the heart is your dwelling.

  2. This longing of mine drives me to meet you,

    yet I never quenched my burning longing upon meeting you.

  3. And I have now mourned you in death,

    and I saw no misfortunes throughout your life.

  4. You went mad with love for one who would not accept you as his

    beloved, and you abandoned the weeping lover.

  5. He doomed you to become his slain victim,

    before you could place me among those you had slain.

  6. What would it have cost you—my mind flying in longing

    toward your face—had your character pleased me?

  7. Indeed, your suicide is preferable to your coldness toward me

    and to your love for one who does not love you.

  8. If you were a tyrannical queen upon the earth,

    let none but the most wretched of your subjects gloat.

  9. You have indeed rid yourself of arrogance and mockery,

    and he who took you in death avenged my heart upon you.

  10. Even if I grieve, my sorrows last only for a time,

    and I shall escape remembrance and forget you.

Sol 6.1