Digues, amic [English translation]

My friend, you who love so deeply:

Could you please, tell me what love is?

Love is death for those who live

And life to those who are dying;

It is the very joy of daylight,

Sweet sorrow in death...

The homesickness of the journey,

Happiness in the haven!

- Tell me, my friend, who enjoys the greater love:

He who lives thanks to love, or he who dies because of it?

- He who dies of it (says my faithful friend)

For there couldn't be a more sublime love!

It is the delightful stab wound

That kills he who is in love

When he hears the song, while alive,

That praises the beauty of his beloved!