You, plenitude of lunar light. You, stately, elemental reed. Unawareness unimaginable, Faced with beauty of this kind. Of you they say, "Noonday sun !" How unjust and what deception ! Love consumes me and exacts, In this interim before extinction, A vow of vigilance and safekeeping. How is my heart enhanced ?

Or my flesh caparisoned ? For this cloak of pain, they heap Reproaches and thwart the truth That pain alone pays homage.