XL SONG
Mitchell S. (Mitchell Starrett) Buck translation
“THE night is so profound that it penetrates my eyes.—Thou seest not the road. Thou wilt lose thyself in the forest.
“The noise of falling waters fills my ears.—Thou wouldst not hear the voice of thy lover though he were not twenty steps away.
“The perfume of the flowers is so powerful that I grow faint and I shall fall.—Thou wouldst not know even if he crossed thy path.
“Ah! he is very far from here, on the other side of the mountain; but I see him and I hear him and I feel him as though he touched me.”