No sacrifice I have withheld for love.

My stone sceptres and round badges of rank have come to an end.

Why have I not been heard?

Already the drought is terrible beyond expression!

The heated air is overpowering; it is a concentrated fierceness.

I have not ceased to offer the pure sacrifices,

I myself have gone from the border altars to the ancestral temples.

To Heaven,

To Earth,

I have made the proper offerings,