No more noisy, loud words from me - lyrics

No more noisy, loud words from me -

such is my master's will.

Henceforth I deal in whispers.

The speech of my heart

will be carried on in murmurings of a song.

Men hasten to the King's market.

All the buyers and sellers are there.

But I have my untimely leave in the middle of the day, in the thick of work.

Let then the flowers come out in my garden,

though it is not their time;

and let the midday bees strike up their lazy hum.

Full many an hour have I spent in the strife of the good and the evil,

but now it is the pleasure of my playmate of the empty days

to draw my heart on to him;

and I know not why is this sudden call

to what useless inconsequence!