My lips are full of my secret kiss upon your neck.

You are with another, whom I hate; whom I like well for himself, but hate because he possesses you ...

Your possessor is old and ugly;

He can not love you as I can.

I can pour out for you the scented treasures of my young love.

Dear night of hope, when you gave me the whispered promise to come to me ...

Stealthy was I and cunning.

Friendly and attentive was I to your old lover (if lover he may be called, who is almost incapable of love).

And, all the time, I was scheming for you.

When the old man was away for an instant—