My melancholy mood has grown so great That now I really think that if my foe, My mortal enemy, should chance to know, He’d shed some pitying tears for my sad state. While she who’s quite indifferent to my fate, Could even yet, if she were minded so, Make perfect cure of all my present woe By saying simply: “You’re the one I hate!” But no, she has one answer: that, in brief, She wills me neither good nor evil now, And hints I’d better mind my own affairs. She troubles less if I have joy or grief, Than for a straw she tramples on, I vow: Accursed be Love who led me to these snares.
My melancholy mood has grown so great That now I really think that if my foe, My mortal enemy, should chance to know, He’d shed some pitying tears for my sad state. While she who’s quite indifferent to my fate, Could even yet, if she were minded so, Make perfect cure of all my present woe By saying simply: “You’re the one I hate!” But no, she has one answer: that, in brief, She wills me neither good nor evil now, And hints I’d better mind my own affairs. She troubles less if I have joy or grief, Than for a straw she tramples on, I vow: Accursed be Love who led me to these snares.