|
I |
1 |
With the season which renews |
|
|
|
The world, and makes the meadows green again, |
|
|
|
I wish to begin a new song |
|
|
|
About a love which I desire; |
|
|
5 |
But she is so distant from me |
|
|
|
That I cannot reach her, |
|
|
|
Nor does she take pleasure in my words. |
|
|
|
|
|
II |
|
Nothing can ever comfort me; |
|
|
|
Rather, let me die |
|
|
10 |
When they have separated me from my lady— |
|
|
|
Slanderers, God hate them! |
|
|
|
Alas! I will have desired her so much, |
|
|
|
That for her I lament, weep, and sigh, |
|
|
|
And I act as if I were out of my mind. |
|
|
|
|
|
III |
15 |
She whom you hear me sing about |
|
|
|
Is more beautiful than I can say: |
|
|
|
She has a fresh color and a lovely look, |
|
|
|
And has an unobscured radiance; |
|
|
|
Yes, and she is not all made up, |
|
|
20 |
And one cannot say a bad thing about her, |
|
|
|
So fine and perfect is she. |
|
|
|
|
|
IV |
|
And she should prize herself above each, |
|
|
|
In my opinion, for her words |
|
|
|
Of truth, eloquence, and cultivation, |
|
|
25 |
For she never wished to betray her lover; |
|
|
|
And I was a fool that time |
|
|
|
Because I believed what I heard about her, |
|
|
|
And did something that angered her. |
|
|
|
|
|
V |
|
I have never wanted to complain about her, |
|
|
30 |
For if she wishes, she can still gladden me, |
|
|
|
And indeed she has the power to give |
|
|
|
Something that can enrich me; |
|
|
|
I cannot last very long, |
|
|
|
For I am not eating and am losing sleep |
|
|
35 |
Because she is not nearer to me. |
|
|
|
|
|
VI |
|
Love is sweet at first sight, |
|
|
|
And bitter at departing; |
|
|
|
For one day it can make you cry, |
|
|
|
And another it can make you play and dance; |
|
|
40 |
And I know about educated love: |
|
|
|
Just when I thought I was best serving her, |
|
|
|
That’s when she changed toward me. |
|
|
|
|
|
VII |
|
Messenger, go, and may God keep you; |
|
|
|
Get through to my lady, |
|
|
45 |
For I cannot last long |
|
|
|
Here, nor be healed from there, |
|
|
|
If I cannot kiss and hold her |
|
|
|
Naked next to me |
|
|
|
In a room with curtains. |
