Sol 5.6

  1. O you who have gone far from me—if only

    I were able, I would never have parted from you—

  2. you who gathered love within me,

    though I scattered it from everyone but you;

  3. and hung my hope upon you,

    after I was bound to you.

  4. God knows that I

    have outstripped passion and surpassed it.

  5. I did not know what love could do

    in separation until I tasted it.

  6. I thought that I was yearning;

    now I have proved it true.

  7. I possessed my solace after you left,

    but I set it free.

  8. Many an ash-gray one have I raced

    over sorrow’s course, and outstripped.

  9. I kept pouring out my tears

    until I made them speak.

  10. I could not tell, when they sang and I wailed,

    whether they stirred my longing, or I stirred theirs.

  11. If ever my patience was to perish,

    this is its moment.

  12. For the heart—I have burned it,

    and the eyelid—I have drowned it.

  13. And I was afflicted—not by mere longing—

    but by tears I made shimmer and flow.

  14. Were it not for the hope of meeting you

    afterward, I would have poured them all away.

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