So the glance of your bright eyes, when you leave me,

Sinks into my heart.

He calls his love his light of May, his Easter Day:

She is my sweetheart, a sweet May

Bringing delights, a sunshine without cloud.

and says, in promising fidelity: 'My steady mind is not like the wind.'

Reinmar says:

When winter is over

I saw the heath with the red flowers, delightful there....

The long winter is past away; when I saw the green leaves