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!