"Of a truth thine eyes have bewitched me,

For Death itself is in fear of them:

And thine eyebrows, like two logs of wood,

Have battered me each in its turn.

So if thou sayest die, I'll die;

And for God shall my sacrifice be!

"I have neither yet died nor abandoned hope,

Though slumber at night I ne'er know.

With the staff of deliverance still afar off,

So that all the world knows of my woe.