Love in my soul will wax in power,

And spring, upon whose charms I gaze,

Whose breath the heat of toil allays,

With thoughts of her for whom I strain

My hopeless eyes, increase my pain.

As fire in summer rages through

The forests thick with dry bamboo,

So will my fawn eyed love consume

My soul o'erwhelmed with thoughts of gloom.

Behold, beneath each spreading tree