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Unjustly<br />
Have I lost joy and pleasure;<br />
Nothing can bring me comfort;<br />
In agony I await death.<br />
By day<br />
I am in tears and fearful,<br />
Anxious and doleful,<br />
Suffering and sorrowful;<br />
By night<br />
I have neither pleasure nor enjoyment.<br />
When I lie in my bed, there is<br />
Silence,<br />
And it fills me with pain and distress;<br />
It seems as though I can see you,<br />
But you cannot speak to me,<br />
Which makes things even worse for me than they were.<br />
I shake,<br />
I sweat with anguish and torment;<br />
Then I stretch out my hands to reach you,<br />
And when I am about to hold you, it comes to nothing.<br />
My love,<br />
When I go back to sleep, then it seems<br />
That you are there before my face,<br />
All stricken and downcast.<br />
God grant<br />
That some good may come to me from this dream!<br />
Then it seems that I am hailed<br />
Time and again<br />
By some voice, I know not which, lamenting,<br />
That speaks clearly to me<br />
Like this:<br />
‘Tisbé, do you recognise your love?<br />
Wake up, let us go away from here.<br />
Tisbé,<br />
The gods have commanded us<br />
To go out from the city,<br />
Beneath the mulberry tree,<br />
Straight to the spring by the gravel bank:<br />
There we can enjoy ourselves together.’<br />
My love,<br />
Tell me what you think of this.<br />
I want you to be quite sure of my love,<br />
In truth.<br />
I shall steal away during the first part of the night,<br />
At midnight I shall go and see,<br />
Beyond the walls,<br />
If I can find you there.<br />
My love, your life is my treasure:<br />
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