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!